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That doesn’t appear to be true. The thing doing scheduling has to cooperate with the thing doing stack management, so that context can be switched. What are th
by bboreham 8y ago
That doesn’t appear to be true. The thing doing scheduling has to cooperate with the thing doing stack management, so that context can be switched.
What are those two things, in your proposition that we can simply use Linux threads?
- pcwalton 8y agoThe kernel has to restore registers, including the stack pointer, on a context switch. But it doesn't care about how big the allocation underpinning that stack is.