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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.
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