From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Dec 16 22:37:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74EC37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:37:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487EE43ED4 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:37:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBH6bjnZ021680; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:37:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBH6bi6g021679; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:37:44 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Bill Huey (Hui)" , Jack Nielsen , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20021217063744.GB21287@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , "Bill Huey (Hui)" , Jack Nielsen , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021215090538.9378.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> <3DFD59A4.314F15A5@mindspring.com> <20021216053038.GA9520@gnuppy.monkey.org> <3DFD5C24.2D2B2564@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DFD5C24.2D2B2564@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Terry Lambert : > "Bill Huey (Hui)" wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 08:42:12PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I know what the whitepaper says. Have you read their souce code? > > > They actually implement a frm of scheduler activations. > > > > Where did you get that bit of info BTW ? > > From Sun. > > > why would a 1:1 model need scheduler activations still ? > > Because it's not really a 1:1 model. Do you care to explain what you're talking about? I was talking to some folks in the Solaris kernel group the other week, and they're calling it a 1:1 model. (I haven't seen the code.) Apparently the author is understandably proud of the fact that there are no bug reports against his thread library, as opposed to the M:N library, which was never fixed entirely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message