Re: Green/Native threads

[Juergen Kreileder]

>>>>> Nelson Minar writes:

    Nelson> I'm curious how Java thread priorities are layered on top
    Nelson> of LinuxThreads.. When a thread of high priority becomes
    Nelson> runnable, is a SIGSTOP sent to all lower priority threads
    Nelson> to make them stop until the high priority thread finishes?

Since we use LinuxThreads and SCHED_OTHER, 1.2 native threads ignores 
Java thread priorities (that is valid with respect to the JLS).
1.1.7 used a trick to allow reducing a thread's priority.


        Juergen

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