sched_4BSD

[Kamal R. Prasad]

--- Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
> 
> >--- Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>--- Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com> 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

> >
> >
> >=====
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> >Kamal R. Prasad
> >UNIX systems consultant 
> >kamalp at acm.org
> >
> >In theory, there is no difference between theory
> and practice. In practice, there is:-).
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Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant 
kamalp at acm.org

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is:-).
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