[ruby-core:80532] Re: [ruby-cvs:65407] normal:r58236 (trunk): thread.c: comments on M:N threading [ci skip]

[SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net>]

On 2017/04/02 11:35, Eric Wong wrote:
> However, to spawn native threads:
> 
> If a Thread uses existing GVL release C-API, then the _next_
> Thread.new call will create a native thread (and future
> Thread.new will be subclass of Fiber in new native thread).
> 
> So, in pseudo code:
> 
>   class Thread < Fiber
>     def self.new
>       case Thread.current[:gvl_state]
>       when :none
>          # default
>          super # M += 1
>       when :released
>         # this is set by BLOCKING_REGION GVL release
>         # only allow a user-level thread to spawn one new native thread
> 	Thread.current[:gvl_state] = :spawned
> 
>         NativeThread.new { Thread.new } # N += 1
>       when :spawned
>         # We already spawned on native thread from this user-level
> 	# thread, only spawn new user-level thread for now.
> 	super # M += 1
>       end
>     end
>   end
> 
> Current GVL release operations will change
> Thread.current[:gvl_state] from :none -> :released

Sorry I can't understand the basic of your idea with mixing Threads and
Fibers. Maybe you need to define more about the model.

Our plan is not mixing Threads and Fibers, so that (hopefully) there are
no problem.

Thanks,
Koichi

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