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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:01:57 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Threads and the scheduler
Message-ID:  <3842DBB5.8AFC9B6@newsguy.com>

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I have a question.

Our scheduler is based on the assumption that i/o bound processes
will block, and cpu bound processes will not. Because of that, we
can support a _lot_ of i/o bound processes on a 64 Hz scheduler. If,
though, we allow the i/o bound processes to always make use of their
full quanta through use of threads, won't this have a huge impact on
our ability to support many i/o bound processes?

So, I guess what I'm getting at is: won't the proposed thread model
have an impact on the effectiveness of our scheduler?

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
who is as social as a wampas

dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org





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