Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 3 Feb 2007 00:04:15 +0000 | | From | Alan <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling |
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> When parallelising "real work", I absolutely agree with you: we should use > threads. But you need to look at what it is we parallelize here, and ask > yourself why we're doing what we're doing, and why people aren't *already* > just using a separate thread for it.
Because its a pain in the arse and because its very hard to self tune. If you've got async_anything then the thread/fibril/synchronous/whatever decision can be made kernel side based upon expected cost and other tradeoffs, even if its as dumb as per syscall or per syscall/filp type guessing.
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