From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] what am i missing
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:00:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADSkJJURoTSsuNHWpHb6=yWvQh9-DpQ3h+nMxC=s0AdYUj-h_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12d49fddae516ea31fe10407d7547b06@brasstown.quanstro.net>
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:37 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Wed Apr 25 16:15:27 EDT 2012, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
>> This is not Linux. Each individual proc (thread) has its own
>> set of children, so the only wait message that should arrive
>
> and yet the threadwaitchan() is shared among all threads in all
> procs, no?
Yes, of course, but I don't understand why that is relevant.
We were talking about whether _schedexecwait should ever
get a Waitmsg with w->pid != pid that is not okay to throw
on the floor. Did you actually observe a problem using the
thread library? If so, an actual test program would be great.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 19:46 erik quanstrom
2012-04-25 20:03 ` Russ Cox
[not found] ` <CADSkJJV_C6qrqDDXgRm0jPwRWoX2-YckOCf1bMati625Co5CMg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-04-25 20:06 ` erik quanstrom
2012-04-25 20:14 ` Russ Cox
[not found] ` <CADSkJJVeG7ZqCpnqVd0SvRhKmnWUrewX04kYVX-VTUb50Uemqw@mail.gmail.c>
2012-04-25 20:37 ` erik quanstrom
2012-04-25 21:00 ` Russ Cox [this message]
[not found] ` <CADSkJJURoTSsuNHWpHb6=yWvQh9-DpQ3h+nMxC=s0AdYUj-h_A@mail.gmail.c>
2012-04-25 21:10 ` erik quanstrom
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