Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:21:07 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pthreads question/problem... Message-ID: <E0zxstX-00060r-00@fanf.noc.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990105154902.1745C-100000@current1.whistle.com> References: <369296F4.AE24010B@canonware.com>
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Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote: > >In fact we have a port of the linux threads to FreeBSD so we can do >EXACTLY what they do, including the kernel support. It's being worked on >as we speak. Some is already committed to -current. There is little >argumant however that the ultimate is to schedule N threads over M >processes where M is related to teh number of CPUs available. Sometimes you want M to be large relative to the number of CPUs because you are using threading to improve userland IO concurrency. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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