linux-kernel - Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:53:16 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...ri.fr>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, libc-hacker@...rces.redhat.com,
	libc-alpha@...rces.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:18:17AM +0100, Samuel Thibault (samuel.thibault@...ri.fr) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Evgenity, le Mon 29 Jan 2007 16:47:36 +0100, a écrit :
> > Userspace M-on-N threading model is based on the idea, that when signal
> > is delivered, kernel saves all information related to previous context
> > in stack, so it is possible to find it and replace.
> 
> You may want to have a look at some existing implementations:

I saw most of them.
As far as I recall, only PTL (is not shown here) has preemptible
scheduler. NTL has it too, but is based on different approach.

> - Good old `FSU Pthreads' http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/pthreads/
> - fully POSIX-compliant `GnuPth' http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
> - server-targetted `Capriccio'
> www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jcondit/capriccio-sosp-2003.pdf
> - efficient `ELiTE/Erlangen'
> http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Projects/FORTWIHR/ELiTE/
> - and our portable, flexible, efficient `Marcel'
> http://runtime.futurs.inria.fr/marcel/
> 
> Samuel

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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