Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:28:34 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDB 6.0 and FreeBSD threads Message-ID: <406921A2.7020701@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <40690EA8.5050908@he.iki.fi> References: <4068DA49.24401.5BE9BE4@localhost> <40691304.15123.69C3765@localhost> <40690EA8.5050908@he.iki.fi>
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Petri Helenius wrote:
> Niall Douglas wrote:
>
>>
>> My apologies if this is a question already answered many times
>> previously - what's then the difference between specifying
>> SCOPE_SYSTEM and SCOPE_PROCESS on libpthread? Is it basically whether
>> the thread competes with all threads or just with threads within its
>> process for that process' time slice?
pretty much..
>>
>>
>>
> SCOPE_SYSTEM threads get their own kse while SCOPE_PROCESS threads share
> number of kse´s defined by kern.threads.virtual_cpu or concurrency.
where "KSE" stands for "Kernel Schedulable Entity"
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