Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:41:26 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Kent A Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads across processors Message-ID: <199808242241.WAA02879@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:45:31 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808242343510.361-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Kent A Vander Velden wrote: > > > > > Hi. Does -current support spliting the threads of a single process > > across multiple processors? > > Current still has user threads, which are pretty much unaware of which > processor there on. There's been work towards kernel threads, but it's > not yet to the point that you can play with it. This level of thread support requires that *all* thread mutexes be handled by the kernel (atomicity guarantee). It's several major steps beyond where we are now, and not something that's necessarily a good idea. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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