From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 03:20:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B710016A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:20:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web52702.mail.yahoo.com (web52702.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29F8143D48 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:20:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 89307 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Mar 2005 03:20:03 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=PYUaVsQMwDymy/CNgVprp+bel6lOZeCE47AWXjUJoKrKJNh+53scGT56HUQSdrw1kp4uMAEobVxZhyGD28ulahIhnQD/c39Z1mqNuERPgENIYoTfjUFgoR2p2TGrl5AbybZYrnlVH+iDlQN6Lo9r+M4UOaYzr9HfNRVCBRr1iLc= ; Message-ID: <20050304032003.89305.qmail@web52702.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.91.78.244] by web52702.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:20:03 PST Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Kamal R. Prasad" To: Julian Elischer In-Reply-To: <4227712F.5060906@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sched_4BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: kamalp@acm.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:20:04 -0000 --- Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > > >--- Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > > >>Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>--- Lucas Holt wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Wouldn't a multi threaded program potentially > need > >>>>more cpu time than > >>>>vi? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>No. That is not a given. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Multithreaded apps are created to do a lot of > >>>>computation or > >>>>because they have a lot of concurrent activity > >>>> > >>>> > >>that > >> > >> > >>>>might block right? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Threads are meant to take advantage of > concurrency. > >>> > >>> > >>>Maybe the freebsd implementation should implement > >>> > >>> > >>NPTL > >> > >> > >>>in entirety. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>NPTL? > >>New Pthreads Library from Library? > >> > >> > >Yes. > > > > > >>isn't that GPL'd? > >> > >> > >> > >No -it is a standard. The linux implementation of > nptl > >is gpl'ed. > >regards > >-kamal > > > > > > so how does that differ from what we have ... a > native pthreads library? > I just said if it was conformant with NPTL, thread and process scheduling would co-exist. regards -kamal > > > > > >===== > >------------------------------------------------------------ > >Kamal R. Prasad > >UNIX systems consultant > >kamalp@acm.org > > > >In theory, there is no difference between theory > and practice. In practice, there is:-). > >------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ===== ------------------------------------------------------------ Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant kamalp@acm.org In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-). ------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/