Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:31:47 -0700 From: Seth Leigh <seth@pengar.com> To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP project status Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001024013147.00c4d798@hobbiton.shire.net> In-Reply-To: <20001023182331.P3993@canonware.com> References: <20001024010318.12831.qmail@web1704.mail.yahoo.com> <20001024010318.12831.qmail@web1704.mail.yahoo.com>
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What exactly does this mean? Are we going to have something like the Solaris LWP, and schedule those instead of processes? Basically, what will be the nature of the FreeBSD thread, in terms of kernel schedulable entities? Won't this require a whole new thread library implementation? If so, who is leading that effort? Seth At 06:23 PM 10/23/2000 -0700, Jason Evans wrote: >On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:03:18PM -0700, Yifeng Xu wrote: >> what's status of kernel based pthread implemention? will it still be >> user level pthread library and can not be smp scaled? > >Work is ramping up on scheduler activations, which will allow scaling of >threaded applications in proportion to the number of processors. > >Jason > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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