libgcj and the NPTL posix threads implementation

Fri Mar 5 17:43:00 GMT 2004

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年03月01日 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.
>