From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Nov 6 23:51:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A320014EF2 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 23:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22475 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:51:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA15640 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:51:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6BF14EF2 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 23:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p24-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.153]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id QAA15701; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:51:06 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38252EE8.5F627E51@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 16:48:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Csanady Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads goals version III References: <199911052339.QAA09960@usr06.primenet.com> <3823EE8E.EC50A1BD@newsguy.com> <3824E2A5.D08C3158@ameslab.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Csanady wrote: > > I don't see the problem. So, you ask for two quantum--they will end > up being on the same CPU in this case. They may still be scheduled in > different classes as you please. > > The idea is that you don't want to do this in general, because you > have more context switches than necessary, and increased process > migration. Asking for the same number of quanta as CPU's is simply > the optimal case. > > Or, at least that is how I understand it.. /me mmmms Let's see what Terry says. What you describe makes sense, but he won't be able to use so few words. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message