Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:18:19 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Joan Picanyol <lists-freebsd-current@biaix.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP and one-process threads Message-ID: <40081CDB.7040503@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040116165232.GA13397@grummit.biaix.org> References: <200401151316.24827.eqe@cox.net> <20040116084230.Y92448@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040116165232.GA13397@grummit.biaix.org>
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Joan Picanyol wrote: > * Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> [20040116 17:41]: > >>Be careful.... FreeBSD doesn't currently schedule different threads of the >>same program on different processors. > > Is this true no matter of scheduler/libmap.conf combination? Is it a > planned/required feature? > > qvb > -- > pica Doug's statement was a bit too absolute. The default threading package is libc_r, which is purely a userland threading package and does not allow threads to be scheduled on concurrent CPUs. libkse does allow this, and can be enabled be either linking directly to it, or using the libmap.conf(5) facility. Scott
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