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Date:      Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject:   Re: ithread preemption
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020906110243.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D78098B.CEBF13EC@mindspring.com>

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On 06-Sep-2002 Terry Lambert wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>> > Hey ... I think you have it on the nose!   That makes the most sense
>> > I've heard yet.
>> >
>> > Do we have any way to bind a thread to a cpu?
>> 
>> I used to.  Then KSE3 was committed.  I suppose I could rewrite it from
>> scratch again.
> 
> The ithreads are different from threads.  People don't seem to
> get this idea, but it is nevertheless true.

Having general support for binding threads to a CPU is something in
the scheduler itself, not something buried in ithreads alone.  The rest
of your message is irrelevant to the actual situation at hand.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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