On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:59:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <20000823193814.A24509@gruyere.muc.suse.de>,
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >To solve that it would be very nice to have Mach like continuations in
> >Linux (multiple kernel threads sharing a kernel stack)
>
> Oh, Gods, no.
>
> Continuations are evil. And they don't scale in SMP. Don't even think
> about them.
So you would prefer a two level threads library ?
[you probably agree that it is silly to have java programs with 20 threads
each eating a kernel stack -- and there are not only java programs which
use that wasteful programming style. java programs at least have the
excuse of a stupid API that forces them to do such stuff]
continuations are just a lot of what the two level library would do in user
space put more efficiently into kernel space (like multiplexing poll)
-Andi
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