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Petri Helenius wrote:
> Niall Douglas wrote:
> 
>>
>> My apologies if this is a question already answered many times 
>> previously - what's then the difference between specifying 
>> SCOPE_SYSTEM and SCOPE_PROCESS on libpthread? Is it basically whether 
>> the thread competes with all threads or just with threads within its 
>> process for that process' time slice?

pretty much..

>>
>>  
>>
> SCOPE_SYSTEM threads get their own kse while SCOPE_PROCESS threads share 
> number of kse´s defined by kern.threads.virtual_cpu or concurrency.

where "KSE" stands for "Kernel Schedulable Entity"



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