From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Nov 7 2:13:43 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 20EDB14A2E for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 02:13:40 -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 LAA23477 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:13:38 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA16010 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:13:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9F314C0D for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 02:12:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA57945; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 02:11:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 02:11:56 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Chris Csanady , Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads goals version III In-Reply-To: <38252EE8.5F627E51@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The trouble is that 'quanti' are only useful in discussion when related to the rest of the processes and the system load. On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Chris Csanady wrote: > > > > I don't see the problem. So, you ask for two quantum--they will end > > up being on the same CPU in this case. They may still be scheduled in > > different classes as you please. > > > > The idea is that you don't want to do this in general, because you > > have more context switches than necessary, and increased process > > migration. Asking for the same number of quanta as CPU's is simply > > the optimal case. > > > > Or, at least that is how I understand it.. > > /me mmmms > > Let's see what Terry says. What you describe makes sense, but he > won't be able to use so few words. :-) > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > What y'all wanna do? > Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers > Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message