lkwt in DragonFly
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Feb 10 10:17:04 PST 2004
:idem for linux, see: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf
:the short summary is that fixing your kernel to work nicely with 1:1
:is easier then getting the hairy details of n:m properly working.
:
:I'd like to know why for dragonfly n:m would be better.
:
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:Sten Spans
n:m is always better then 1:1 because thread switches within each
virtual cpu (where the virtual cpu is represented by a single user
process) require no context switch into the kernel at all.
n:m is definitely harder to do, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be
done. It's a great goal for DFly, IMHO. The paper you are quoting is
simply an opinion, like any paper. It is not necessarily correct.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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