From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 29 13:37:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03897 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eagle.ns.net (root@eagle.ns.net [204.75.146.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03837 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (rfg.ns.net [207.159.10.82]) by eagle.ns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18664; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01610; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:36:59 -0700 To: Michael Hancock Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Kernel support for POSIX pthreads (?) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:36:59 -0700 Message-ID: <1608.899152619@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Back on May 9th, on the freebsd-smp mailing list, you wrote: >The current implementation only has one execution context per process. A >two-level implementation is in the works. I'd just like to ask what the current status on this project is. I have a rather substantial network server that I would very much like to convert over to using POSIX pthreads, but for various reasons I really do still want to keep it hosted on FreeBSD. I think that this particular server would make an excelent stress test for any new kernel support for POSIX threads that you blokes might be cooking up, so when and if you need someone to do some Beta or even Alpha testing on the new kernel pthreads support, please do let me know. Thanks. P.S. By the way, I am also curious about how pthreads will be scheduled by the kernel. Will each one be treated with the same sort of respect by the scheduler as each process now gets, or will a group of threads that are all associated with a given process merely be allocated sub-time-slices out of the slices that get allocated to the whole process? -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message