olaf@bigred.inka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:

> > how does the event waiter thread determine whether there is a
> > suitable/idle worker thread to awaken?
> 
> like this?
[complicated queue management code snipped]

This is essentially equivalent to what accept() does in the kernel.
So why not use that directly (together with some sample statistics code
that starts new worker threads as needed)?

-Andi

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