From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2018-01-28T11:02:09+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:85173] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#13618][Assigned] [PATCH] auto fiber schedule for rb_wait_for_single_fd and rb_waitpid

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> > - Matz doesn't have a strong opinion on the name but prefers 2 words (auto-fiber) than a coined word "Thriber."
> > 
> > Next actions:
> > 
> >  * Give a thread-ish name
> 
> Threadlet?

OK, I changed to Threadlet for now.

> >  * Lock and queue should work with auto-fiber?
> 
> I can definitely make Queues work.  I think ko1 was mildly
> against increasing use of Mutex.
> 
> One safety feature I was thinking about was disabling
> auto-switching of Fibers while a Mutex is locked, even.

Still TODO; I don't expect much time for more development
until March; but maybe I'll find pockets of time here and
there (much of the other work I do here is while procrastinating)

Anyways, rebased against r62077:

The following changes since commit 46bfa65fccf58cee280bf552193f93388b00d16d:

  internal.h: add BITFIELD macro to aid C99 users (2018-01-27 21:04:42 +0000)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://80x24.org/ruby threadlet-r62077

for you to fetch changes up to 6b5c8ba6cbfd33d557748cad6ef4928332893083:

  threadlet: non-native fiber support (2018-01-28 10:31:48 +0000)

Raw patches here:
	https://80x24.org/spew/20180128103907.12069-2-e@80x24.org/raw
	https://80x24.org/spew/20180128103907.12069-3-e@80x24.org/raw

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