Re: Many questions, mostly about mach-defpager

[Thomas Thomas]

It would be. I don't write a lot of mutli-threaded code,
and I did not know that GCC supported __thread.
Well, now I know.
The implementation is much cleaner now.

Thanks,
Thomas



----- Original Message -----
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
To: Thomas Thomas <ricinwich@yahoo.com>
Cc: "bug-hurd@gnu.org" <bug-hurd@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Many questions, mostly about mach-defpager

Thomas Thomas, le Mon 30 Apr 2012 16:30:00 -0700, a écrit :
> Nextly, it uses cthread_data to store a pointer to a thread-specific buffer
> that it uses in paging. As I see it: all threads are created when the pager
> starts up, and no threads are created afterward. Thus, I could achieve the
> same result by using a hash to map between the thread handles and the
> buffer pointers. Would this be a good idea/efficient? Mainly, I just want
> your thoughts.

But why doing that?  It'd be simpler to just use a __thread variable.

Samuel