Patches item #1396919, was opened at 2006-01-04 23:53 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by perky You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1396919&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Build Group: Python 2.4 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Valts (valdiic) Assigned to: Hye-Shik Chang (perky) Summary: FreeBSD is system scope threads capable Initial Comment: I was a little bit disapointed when I mentioned that Python 2.4 uses libpthread library on FreeBSD 5 but avoids using system scope threads. I tried digging google to clarify why it is so and found out that it was because one of threading regression tests (test_threaded_import) failed on FreeBSD 5 (https:// sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=305470&aid=902444&group_id=5470). I compiled Python on my FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 and ran all the regression tests (I executed regrtest.py) and saw no errors at all. I tried test_threaded_import and the test was successful. I don't see any reason why to avoid using system scope threads specially on FreeBSD. I know that using userland scope threads is quite faster because there is no need for kernel activities in context switching. But as far as I know most of servers (where speed is important) are SMP boxes. Userland scope threads don't use capabilities of multiple CPU's, so it should be reasonable to use system scope threads. To make it even better it could be good idea to make use of configuration parameter which determines which kind of threads has to be used. Since I'm not autoconf guru I made a patch which just removes checking against FreeBSD in thread_pthread.h Regards, Valts. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Hye-Shik Chang (perky) Date: 2006-03-23 21:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=55188 Fixed in r43249. Thank you for the report! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-01-15 03:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 perky, you created the original patch. can you please review this one? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1396919&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Patches mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/patches
