Re: [PATCH] libports: implement lockless management of threads

[Justus Winter]

Hi :)

youpi wrote:
> Now, there is no need for the two counters to be updated coherently,
> they are used for different reasons, and don't actually interfere. Also,
> mixing them into one int reduces the maximum number of threads to 65535,
> which is not so big.
>
> So I'd say please move to using two unsigned ints. Yes, it means
> two atomic operations on thread creation/destruction, but that's an
> expensive operation already anyway (and we're not supposed to do that so
> often). Readability of the code is more important than that :)

You were right, the counters do not have to be updated coherently,
here is an updated patch. Hurd packages built with them seem to work
normal.

Justus