Re: thread-ready ABIs

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>]

Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> writes:

> Changing the kernel for the small number of threaded applications that
> exists and taking a performance impact for the kernel itself and anything
> that's using threads is an exquisite example for a bad tradeoff.

Well, it seems you haven't read what I wrote.  It's not about a small
number of threaded applications anymore.  The thread register will be
part of the ABI and all applications, threaded or not, will use it.

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