RE: RasterMan on linux and threads

David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:39:26 -0800

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> hmm - so if i do short bursted threads ( approx < 0.1 seconds each on
> average i guess ) will he get scheduled across spuc or be weighted to
> remain on the same cu due to MM afinity (whihc is why i'd use therads
> since they will share memeory space and MM affinity heavily) - so will
> hey get scheduled across cpu's - i asked san mehat about this and he
> sugsted tey'd end up all being scheduled on the same cpu - giving no
> speedup ?

You really can't use pthreads for such fine-grained scheduling. At least,
not easily.

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