Re: kernel thread support - LWP's

Benjamin LaHaise (kernel@kvack.org)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:06:55 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Nate Tuck wrote:

> In cases where developer time (or time to market) is at a premium and the
> problems at hand require some kind of modular parallelism. I have a
> program on my desk that can run >20 active threads on a one CPU machine.
> Given the problem(s) we had to solve with it, threads saved us many
> man-months of development effort and were the right answer. I can imagine
> that other developers have the same sorts of quandaries (or would if they
> understood how threads could help them).

Could you explain what the >20 active threads are doing?

-ben

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