Re: kernel thread support - LWP's

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
18 Jul 1999 11:25:51 -0700


Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> You send a signal back and do a sigwaitinfo() waiting for it. The signal
> can carry a status code.

Using yet another signal and system calls? Everybody is complaining
that the thread creation is so much slower than a simple clone() but
when I explain what I need people do not even listen. You've seen the
code I've orignially posted, The code size increase in the kernel is
minial. What can possibly be wrong with this?

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