Re: pthreads question/problem...

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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Date
6 Jan 1999 05:21:49
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Re: pthreads question/problem...
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Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote:
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>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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