Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:10:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Subject: Re: 1:1 threading. Message-ID: <3E852ABD.E77EA566@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303281253080.52134-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > I'm happy to see the limit of (NKSEs !> NCPU) lifted for processes that > are in some way identified as 1:1 mode processes.. > I don't want to lift it for KSE mode processes however. > > For system scope threads, I guess you just allocate a separate KSEGRP > so it has somewhere to store pertinent info. > > that makes it rather simple > system scope threads have a thread, a KSE and a KSEGRP > process scope threads just use the existing KSEGRP. > > Everythiong should just "fall out correctly" by doing this.. Except that means for process scope threads, you don't get SMP scalability, since the single KSEGRP binds them all to a single CPU... right? -- Terry
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