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no nptl though.

no nptl though.

Posted Jun 30, 2005 19:15 UTC (Thu) by astrophoenix (guest, #13528)
Parent article: A look at Xen

the lack of nptl support was a killer for me. I wanted to run a virtual redhat advanced server 3 using gentoo as a host system. but the whole reason I wanted AS3 running virtually was so I could test production multi-threaded code using redhat's 2.4 kernel with back-ported nptl. in production, the code would be using nptl but on my virtual machine, nptl would have to be disabled to get xen to work.


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no nptl though.

Posted Aug 3, 2005 0:42 UTC (Wed) by rimuhosting (guest, #31061) [Link]

Xen runs NPTL code. There is a performance penalty (not sure how significant). There are glibc patches out to reduce that performance penalty.

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