[llvm-dev] Efficient Green Thread Context-Switching

[Jon Chesterfield via llvm-dev]

> I propose that the LLVM devs consider adding “swapstack” and “newstack”
> into the LLVM project officially.
>

Thanks for the reference. I was going to suggest the 'preserve_none'
calling convention, applied to asm which does the stack pointer swapping,
would be equivalent to swapstack. However that calling convention doesn't
appear to exist - it would be one where the caller is required to save all
live values to the stack before jumping.

'preserve_none' may be a useful calling convention independent of green
threads. Functions which will always use all the available registers
benefit from not having to save/restore any of them, if the caller knew to
preserve any live values. A green thread context switch is roughly a call
that preserved nothing.

Newstack I'm not as sure about. Green thread libraries are likely to put a
lot of effort into how stacks are sized, allocated, reused. That seems
better as a runtime call.

Thanks
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