From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Jun 29 18:39:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from RedDust.bluesky.net.au (CPE-61-9-143-86.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.143.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8639F37B401; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from receiver@blueskybbs.yi.org) Received: from localhost (receiver@localhost) by RedDust.bluesky.net.au (8.11.4/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5U1XJP08832; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:33:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from receiver@blueskybbs.yi.org) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:33:18 +1000 (EST) From: Idea Receiver To: Terry Lambert Cc: "E.B. Dreger" , Chris Costello , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc_r locking... why? In-Reply-To: <3B3C3346.E5496485@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > "E.B. Dreger" wrote: > If you "need" kernel threads, look at the Linux kernel > threads in the ports collection (it's a kernel module > that builds and installs as a package). You probably > don't, since performance of kernel threads is really only > about a 20% increment, if you implement them the SVR4 or > Solaris (pre-2.7) or Linux way. It's probably better to > implement with FreeBSD threads as they currently exist, > and get massive SMP scalability when KSE's are brought > into the source tree. > just a quick question... I konw KSE will brought in after SMPng. but it will be really helpful to konw when it will first appear in the source tree? or what other OS can help with SMP vs pthread problem? thx. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message