From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Dec 10 23: 6:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5AB414EFE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:06:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA12559 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 08:06:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA43942 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 08:06:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2D914D2C for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:06:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 11wgc3-0004Vd-00; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:06:39 -0700 Message-ID: <3851B782.1A651689@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:31:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Chuck Robey , Arun Sharma , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thread scheduling References: <19991210114304.A3372@sharmas.dhs.org> <199912110135.SAA23495@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > > However, is it desirable to have multiple threads in a single process > executing on multiple CPUs? Of course, if the benefits don't outweight > the costs in terms of complexity and such. A reasonable point of view. The end goal must be to enable this, but not at the expense of getting *some* kernel-supported threads in 4.{0,1,2}. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message