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Date:      Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:50:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
Subject:   Re: 1:1 threading.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303291250360.80824-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E852ABD.E77EA566@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 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?


no

> 
> -- Terry
> 



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