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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:19:39 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: worker thread performance question
Message-ID:  <41C09C5B.7060706@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <41C094CB.9010009@he.iki.fi>
References:  <41C0898E.3090005@he.iki.fi> <41C092EA.7060100@elischer.org> <41C094CB.9010009@he.iki.fi>

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Petri Helenius wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
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>> Petri Helenius wrote:
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>>>
>>> With libpthread is it usually optimal to have as many worker threads 
>>> (CPU bound stuff) as kern.threads.virtual_cpu or have, say double 
>>> the number so that there is always a thread in the run queue when 
>>> another hits a mutex or sleep? 
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>> Are they always runnable?
>
>
> Almost, except when they run into shared structures which obviously 
> are minimized by design.
>
>> theoretically you can schedule as many as you want.
>> any number > NCPU should keep teh system busy, but
>> I'm not sure I fully understand the question.
>
>
> The question was aimed towards if larger runqueue takes more CPU to 
> maintain than a shorter one does and if threads are involuntarily 
> switched. 


yes and yes.

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> Pete
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>>> Pete
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