Hi,
I've written a proof-of-concept module of what could be a Linux way of
supporting thread pool regulation, and in particular pthread_worqueue
kind of API. [0]
I've published the code on [1] and you can have a look at how the kernel
support "works" on [2] (asciidoc generated, may be a bit late from the
one in the repository).
On [3] there is a small "library", more like hints of how to use the
API. I sadly don't have enough time to make a tentative port of mark's
libpthread-workqueue using this kernel module, hence wonder if there are
people who would be interested into that kind of work.
Enjoy…
PS: the kernel module has been tested very lightly with stuff like [4],
I've, *I think*, found all the possible issues and are reasonably
confident with the correctness of the code. Though I'd strongly
advise you to use it in a virtual machine at first. It mucks about
with the scheduler, very bad things can happen which often results
in deadlocked kernel at best, kernel panics at worst…
[0] https://plus.google.com/102418560027665797123/posts/jQMUfb53c5n
[1] http://git.madism.org/?p=~madcoder/pwqr.git;a=summary
[2] http://madism.org/~madcoder/pwqr.html
[3] http://git.madism.org/?p=~madcoder/pwqr.git;a=blob;f=lib/libpwqr.c;hb=HEAD
[4] http://git.madism.org/?p=~madcoder/pwqr.git;a=blob;f=test/test.c;hb=HEAD
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