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SubjectRe: RasterMan on linux and threads

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Brian Pomerantz wrote:

> Basically when you start a thread, the likelihood of it running on
> another CPU than the one the original process is running is small if
> the thread is short lived. The reason for this is the scheduler gives
> priority to a process on the same CPU as the one currently running and
> more priority if that process shares the same VM as the one that was
> just running. If a thread lives long enough or there is a large
> number of threads sharing the same VM, eventually it/they will migrate
> across more CPUs. Threads are no different than processes in this
> regard.

this is false. We wake up any newly created thread, which means that we
immediately send a cross-CPU message to any potential idle CPU to run this
new thread. I've just measured this on pre1-2.3.34 - we start running the
newly created thread within 15 microseconds _on another CPU_ after it got
created.

-- mingo


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