[ruby-core:68607] Re: Looking for MRI projects for Ruby Google Summer of Code 2015

what problem will it create if a fibre holding a mutex continue or resume
in another thread ?


On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Tony Arcieri <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:59 PM, SASADA Koichi <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Fiber captures also machine stack. How to resume it on the other
>> threads? It is very interesting.
>
>
> Hi Koichi,
>
> I put this project on the Ideas List. It is indeed quite difficult. It's a
> project I'm potentially interested in mentoring, but if we chose to attempt
> it I would really love your input on it.
>
> There are many potential states where resuming a fiber across threads
> simply will not work, for example if the current fiber is holding a mutex.
> So the project would start with determining what states a fiber could be in
> where cross-thread resumption is allowed.
>
> It may simply be infeasible without major changes to MRI. I would consider
> it more of a research project than anything, and would probably give it a
> low chance of success.
>
> --
> Tony Arcieri
>