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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:35:34 +0100
From:      "Niall Douglas" <s_sourceforge@nedprod.com>
To:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GDB 6.0 and FreeBSD threads
Message-ID:  <40691536.2959.6A4C95E@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <4068F9D6.3070704@elischer.org>
References:  <4068DA49.24401.5BE9BE4@localhost>

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On 29 Mar 2004 at 20:38, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Ah but Linux and Solaris have gone the other way..
> They have abandonned M:N in favour of N:N with kernel based thread
> suspension.

I haven't implemented a thread scheduler in some years, but I am more 
familiar with what's required than many who state an opinion on M:N 
vs. 1:1. My instinct says that M:N is the superior solution - I don't 
have anything to prove this and certainly it'll be tricky, but 
generally anything which increases parallelisability will increase 
scalability.

I had been watching your work from afar just out of interest in how 
you do with a real M:N implementation. Someone asked for my library 
to work on FreeBSD, so now I'm actually part of the process. I look 
forward to it.

Cheers,
Niall





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