Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:01:32 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling |
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > but if the application /has/ identified fundamental parallelism, we > /must not/ shut that parallelism off by /designing/ this interface to > use the fibril thing which is a limited cooperative, single-CPU entity.
Right. We should for example encourage people to use some kind of paralellizing construct.
I know! We could even call them "threads", so to give people the idea that they are independent smaller entities in a thicker "rope", and we could call that bigger entity a "task" or "process", since it "processes" data.
Or is that just too far out?
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