Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Any lightweight way for one thread to force another thread to suspend execution? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:04:51 +0200 |
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"Eric Smith" <eric@brouhaha.com> writes: > > What I've thought about so far (but haven't tested) for thread A > to suspend thread B is to use a signal and two pthread conditions:
Any such mechanism will need a syscall, and it's unlikely that any syscall will get much cheaper than a kill(SIGSTOP)
-Andi
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