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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:31:47 -0700
From:      Seth Leigh <seth@pengar.com>
To:        smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP project status
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20001024013147.00c4d798@hobbiton.shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001023182331.P3993@canonware.com>
References:  <20001024010318.12831.qmail@web1704.mail.yahoo.com> <20001024010318.12831.qmail@web1704.mail.yahoo.com>

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What exactly does this mean?

Are we going to have something like the Solaris LWP, and schedule those
instead of processes?  Basically, what will be the nature of the FreeBSD
thread, in terms of kernel schedulable entities?

Won't this require a whole new thread library implementation?  If so, who
is leading that effort?

Seth


At 06:23 PM 10/23/2000 -0700, Jason Evans wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:03:18PM -0700, Yifeng Xu wrote:
>> what's status of kernel based pthread implemention?  will it still be
>> user level pthread library and can not be smp scaled?
>
>Work is ramping up on scheduler activations, which will allow scaling of
>threaded applications in proportion to the number of processors.
>
>Jason
>
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