Terry Lambert wrote: > Jun Su wrote: > > > [ ... 1:1 kernel threads implementation ... ] > > > > A benchmark would be interested. > > This request doesn't make sense. > > The primary performance reasoning behind a 1:1 kernel threading > implementation, relative to the user space single kernel entry > scheduler in the libc_r implementation is SMP scalability for > threaded applications.
No. It gives the ability for a thread to block on a syscall without stalling the entire system. Just try using mysqld on a system using libc_r and heavy disk IO. You can't select() on a read() from disk. Thats the ultimate reason to do it. The SMP parallelism is a bonus. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
