Thanks for replying - that removes one layer (KVM).

On Jan 25, 8:30 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> Each Dalvik thread is a kernel thread.  The scheduling of these is fairly
> entirely up to the kernel, except for situations such as where a GC may need
> to pause threads.
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:39 PM, longingtoadopt.com 
> <anil.r...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > I need to test a program that says it will restrict the number of
> > processor cores being used. I was thinking of writing a program to
> > spawn 100 threads, each one performing some long, intensive
> > computation. Then from a console, I could see how many cores are being
> > used. If I write it in Java (Android), is there a guarantee that the
> > JVM/KVM will run the threads on different cores, and run them on all
> > the cores? (if the scheduler incorrectly used only one core when two
> > are allowed, then that will give me an incorrect result).
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