From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 31 19: 4:57 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 5239314E8B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:04:54 -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 EAA01705 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:04:54 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA69720 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:04:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8ABD14E8B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA08688; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 20:04:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA14336; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 20:04:46 -0700 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 20:04:46 -0700 Message-Id: <199911010304.UAA14336@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads goals version II In-Reply-To: <99Nov1.135453est.40379@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <99Nov1.135453est.40379@border.alcanet.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On 1999-Nov-01 13:18:29 +1100, Julian Elischer wrote: > >2/ Ability to simultaneously schedule M threads over N Processors. > and have Q (where Q = min(M,N)) threads simultaneously executing. > > >3/ One blocking thread cannot block another thread. > > Blocking of one thread does not imply that other threads be > >blocked. > > How about `a thread can remain runnable even if other threads in the > process are blocked'. FWIW, I like this wording. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message