libkse & jdk14: signals(?) breakage

[Alexey Zelkin]

hi,

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:48:21PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> > > > > > Looks like signals are still not really working in libkse.
> > > > > 
> > > > > David Xu is revamping signal handling (it also involves
> > > > > some kernel changes).  Very alpha patches are at:
> > > > > 
> > > > >   http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse_sig/
> > > > > 
> > > > > They are not yet completely working, but might help.
> > > > 
> > > > Cool!  It really helped.  At least visible behaviour is same to libc_r.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Your test is appreciated. I have updated the patches again,
> > > they have past signal test suites included in libpthread.
> > > Can you test these new patches again ?
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse_sig/kern.diff
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse_sig/libpthread.tgz
> > 
> > It just works.  Comparing to first signal patches it behaves even
> > better.  I did not see any random process lockups.  Build & all TCK's
> > VM tests passed.
> 
> Wow, that's great news.  Do you have an SMP system to try the
> TCK tests on?  Libpthread will automatically create as many
> KSEs as you have CPUs.

Unfortunatelly no :-(  There're a lot of problems with customs in my
country with receiving "free" computers and therefore I did not posted
entry to wishlist.

> Do you have any performance benchmarks so we can compare
> against libc_r (or even libthr)?

Not yet.  Functional changes have more priority for me than benchmarking,
sorry.  libkse&libthr issues were "maybe need to be fixed" issues :-)

> BTW, thanks for taking the time to run these tests :-)