From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 6 8: 2:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6446C37B408 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE84043E72 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7161 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2002 15:02:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Sep 2002 15:02:45 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g86F2hBv014839; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:02:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3D78098B.CEBF13EC@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:02:43 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: ithread preemption Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gallatin Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message