Subject: Re: SMP & native threads...
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-smp
Date: 06/11/2003 12:26:15
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 12:07  PM, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> So two questions:
> 1.  Is it possible to add a scheduler hack to only allow threaded
> apps to use one CPU?  E.g. anything doing SA will be forced to cpu0, 
> while
> regular processes can use any.

Not really.  But the short-term fix for the problem will likely be 
"make it so threaded apps can't run on more than one CPU concurrently".

> 2.  Can we disable the internal pthreads lib and use pth from pkgsrc on
> an MP system?  That way at least the box will not wedge and people can
> use the MP support.

You, as a user of -current, are free to do that on your system, sure.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>