Re: [Corelinux-develop] Whats up?

[Frank V. C. <fr...@co...>]

Hans Dulimarta wrote:
> 
> "Frank V. Castellucci" wrote:
> >
> > Whew, long week. How are we, where we are, are we?
> >
> 
> Here I am... adding lines to the Thread and ThreadContext
> implementation.
> 
> One question come to mind? Why there is no 'pthread_*' call
> at all in Thread and ThreadContext? Not even pthread_create?

pthread is a user space thread mechanism. If you are running on a SMP
machine, the threads that are created using pthread do not take
advantage of the other processors.

Lets stick to "clone".

> >From 24 requirements item in req1588.html, I discovered that
> 12 of them have been implemented.

Cool. Are you finding it interesting, or is it boring stuff?

> I added 2 more implemented requirements: created and blocked
> count.
> 
> Next I'll tackle the priority related. But.... should I use
> pthread_*?

By the way, if you are going to add priority you may consider the actual
Linux call to be wrapped in a static in Environment?


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