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m 08 Jul 2008, 11:44
hi all,
i was looking for some online book etc. which will describe the techniques used by modern OSs to implement multi-threading... how do they manage so many threads contained in a single process?

hope that someone knows about a really good online source of such info..

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f0dder 08 Jul 2008, 14:24
There's several thing included. One is the "thread context", which at the very least includes a copy of the CPU registers - but typically also a lot more than that (OS dependent stuff). Threads also usually have separate stacks.

To schedule threads for execution, you typically use a timer interrupt which does some bookkeeping and decides when to switch from one thread to another - there's various different algorithms you can use for this.

Yes, that was pretty incomplete and generic - I suggest you to find a copy of "Inside Windows"/"Windows Internals", there's some decent description of how NT handles it.
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tom tobias 08 Jul 2008, 14:56
m wrote:

how do they manage so many threads contained in a single process?
unix type environment
another unix environment.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb497012(TechNet.10).aspx
here's a power point presentation.
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m 09 Jul 2008, 11:56
thanks tom for those links! exactly what i needed.
thanks a lot, although i can't thank you enough Smile

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edfed 09 Jul 2008, 16:45
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how will edfed implement the multithreading?


very hard thing to do, but possible.

threads have execution contexts.
they are not tasks.
no TSS.
ESI for current, EDI for parent, and ESP for returns and temporary values.

follow the fool principle, it will be exactlly like that.

it is still ok, but cannot be called multithread because the system doesn't interrupt them to dispatch the work.

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myothant 31 Oct 2008, 09:35
How to make simple Operating System
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DOS386 31 Oct 2008, 09:40
myothant wrote:
How to make simple Operating System


Please don't pollute threads, multithreading is not what you have to care about now, OS construction is the correct subforum, first look into some "bootsector" , "bootable Hello World" , "MiniDOS" or similar examples, and then open one new thread to ask.

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f0dder 03 Dec 2008, 00:03
asmcoder wrote:
can you upload "Inside Windows"/"Windows Internals" plz?
Go buy the book, I don't think it's appropriate to warez stuff on the fasm board.

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tom tobias 03 Dec 2008, 13:28
http://williamstallings.com/OS/OS5e.html
then, click on "student resources" to access a PDF file on Windows, if that is the operating system of interest to you.
Alternatively, I suggest trying the Homework problems for Stalling's book.
http://www.box.net/shared/5bllmdr10l
Here is another EXCELLENT resource:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Operating_System_Design
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