libgcj and the NPTL posix threads implementation

[Boehm, Hans]

Thanks.

I'm currently digging around there to clean up the libgcj-collector interface
(to get rid of the include of collector-private files) and
to get the collector backtrace stuff to work with gcj.  I'll look at this as well.

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Green [mailto:green@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:17 PM
> To: Boehm, Hans
> Cc: 'Michael Koch'; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: RE: libgcj and the NPTL posix threads implementation
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:28, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> > The collector does use pthread mutexes in the gcj 
> configuration.  But that's because
> > thread-local allocation is enabled, and the small object 
> allocations should not
> > normally involve locking. 
> 
> I'm finding that every allocation results in calls to
> pthread_mutex_trylock().  
> 
> Put breakpoints on _Jv_AllocBytes, _Jv_AllocPtrFreeObject and
> pthread_mutex_try.  You'll see that phtread_mutex_try follows every
> _Jv_Alloc* call.
> 
> AG
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>
> Red Hat, Inc.
>