Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

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i didn't say this at the time, but now that you mention inferno, i will.
if someone is seriously worried about TLB flushing on context switches,
likes setting up the MMU pretty much once-for-all,
thinks all threads should share all the address space, and absolutely
disdains user mode, he should be writing in limbo for
native inferno, where all of that is the usual state,
and indeed there is no other.  we're all in it together.

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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:38:35 +1100
Message-ID: <006201c3fdde$a6339030$8201a8c0@cc77109e>

i had trouble believing that the screeds of banter were from linus.
maybe he has a ghost writer.  when he did the "i don't write
user programs with threads" and thru in some kernel examples,
with obligatory assembly language results - well i thought
what are these guys discussing? gee, i just write in limbo.
threads are fun, linus, when you don't have to do all that crap
to manage them.  i just use "spawn", the only language support
for threads.  the rest is easy - i'm happy.

correct or challenge on any presummption.

brucee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Pike" <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel


> in case that wasn't clear enough, i have no idea what linus is talking
> about when he says we had 'overhead' that made it 'really stupid'
> 'in practice'.
>
> -rob