Feature request: ability to use libeio with multiple event loops

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 03:37:48AM +0100, Ben Noordhuis <info at bnoordhuis.nl> wrote:
> You either have an overly broad definition of or simply the wrong idea
> about what CPU registers are.

Then you can surely point out where my idea differs from, say, intel's or
motorola's idea of what registers are. Please do so, I am very curious.

Or do you mean to say that everybody is just wrong about registers, except
you? It surely sounds like that to me.

> What do you think happens when a thread on a UP system is swapped for
> another one?

I am sure that wikipedia has a good entry-level introduction somewhere, if
you want to find out and learn something, it's not all that difficult.

> The benefit that threads have over processes on UP systems is that
> they share the same address space.

That makes no sense - they do so on multiprocessor too, but thats not what
threads were invented for, nor their benefit on UP. Hint, the benefit
is improved context switch times due to not having to change e.g. mmu
registers.

Or just use your brain for a change - processes can share memory, too, so
if thats the benefit they give on UP, why again were they invented?

Try google, it's not all that hard to find out why threads were invented.
Don't weasel out by changing the definition of a thread, prove that you
can do your homework.

> There should be no or fewer TLB misses provided the operating system
> doesn't flush the TLB cache on each task switch.

Whats a task switch for you exactly, if not a context switch?

> But guess what, that's something x86_64 linux kernels always
> do. Apparently it's faster than invalidating ranges of individual pages.

If x86_64 kernels flush the tlb cache on each context switch then there would
be little advantage to using threads on uniprocessor indeed.

Now, you don't normally need to invalidate page ranges on context
switches, though, so I am not sure you mean context switch when you talk
about task switch.

Maybe you have simply the wrong idea about what a context switch is or how
a cpu or mmu works.

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