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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Eric Smith" <eric@brouhaha.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any lightweight way for one thread to force another thread to  suspend execution?
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:04:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877iciyjcs.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40921.64.62.206.10.1214006079.squirrel@ruckus.brouhaha.com> (Eric Smith's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:54:39 -0700 (PDT)")

"Eric Smith" <eric@brouhaha.com> writes:
>
> What I've thought about so far (but haven't tested) for thread A
> to suspend thread B is to use a signal and two pthread conditions:

Any such mechanism will need a syscall, and it's unlikely that
any syscall will get much cheaper than a kill(SIGSTOP) 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-21 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-20 23:54 Eric Smith
2008-06-21 14:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-06-22  1:55   ` Eric Smith
2008-06-22  6:33     ` Bart Van Assche
2008-06-22  9:14     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-23 21:08   ` Eric Smith
2008-06-24  7:59     ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-21 16:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-06-22  2:02   ` Eric Smith

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