Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:07:00 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: HighWind Software Information <info@highwind.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another Serious libc_r problem Message-ID: <362DDC74.B04C3057@pipeline.ch> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810201223390.18282-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: -snip- > As a side note, has anyone thought of hybrid kernel+userland threads? > Basically a userland scheduler with kernel hooks for mutexes and > distributing signals. At startup or on the first pthread_create() the > pthreads library would sysctl out the number of processors in the > system and prefork kernel threads for each. The kernel threads would only > be active on SMP machines, otherwise there really is no point. Does > anyone have any papers/webpages about an algorithm like that? http://www.freebsd.org/~terry (I think so...) -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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