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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:39:22 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: worker thread performance question
Message-ID:  <41C092EA.7060100@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <41C0898E.3090005@he.iki.fi>
References:  <41C0898E.3090005@he.iki.fi>

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Petri Helenius wrote:

>
> With libpthread is it usually optimal to have as many worker threads 
> (CPU bound stuff) as kern.threads.virtual_cpu or have, say double the 
> number so that there is always a thread in the run queue when another 
> hits a mutex or sleep? 

Are they always runnable?
theoretically you can schedule as many as you want.
any number > NCPU should keep teh system busy, but
I'm not sure I fully understand the question.

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> Pete
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