A wired thread (vm_wire) has special vm rules inside the kernel. It's got nothing to do with what you might expect (tying a cthread to a kernel thread).
Thomas On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Thomas Thomas <ricinw...@yahoo.com> wrote: > So, mach-defpager "wires" all of its threads. What exactly does that mean? > I think the headers are kind-of sketchy. They do say that in GNU all > threads > are wired, will this apply to pthread threads, too? > > Nextly, it uses cthread_data to store a pointer to a thread-specific buffer > that it uses in paging. As I see it: all threads are created when the pager > starts up, and no threads are created afterward. Thus, I could achieve the > same result by using a hash to map between the thread handles and the > buffer pointers. Would this be a good idea/efficient? Mainly, I just want > your thoughts. > > > I'll leave it at this... > > Thomas D > > >
