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    [project @ 2004-03-01 14:18:35 by simonmar] · a20ec0ce
    Simon Marlow authored
    Threaded RTS improvements:
    
      - Make the main_threads list doubly linked.  Have threads
        remove themselves from this list when they complete, rather
        than searching for completed main threads each time around
        the scheduler loop.  This removes an O(n) loop from the
        scheduler, but adds some new constraints (basically completed
        threads must remain on the run queue until dealt with, including
        threads which have been killed by an async exception).
    
      - Add a pointer from the TSO to the StgMainThread struct, for
        main threads.  This avoids a number of places where we had
        to traverse the list of main threads to find the right one,
        including one place in the scheduler loop.  Adding a field to
        a TSO is cheap.
    
      - taskStart: we should be resetting the startingWorkerThread flag
        in here.  Not sure why we aren't; maybe this got lost at some point.
    
      - Use the BlockedOnCCall flags in the non-threaded RTS too.  Q: what
        should happen if a thread does a foreign call which re-enters the
        RTS, and then sends an async exception to the original thread?
        Answer: it should deadlock, which it does in the threaded RTS, and
        this commit makes it do so in the non-threaded RTS too (see
        testsuite/tests/concurrent/should_run/conc040.hs).
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