Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads | From | Matt Ranney <> | Date | 26 Apr 1999 12:56:10 -0700 |
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Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org> writes:
[...] > in other words, it's best to have the number of worker threads be close to > the number of physical CPUs; otherwise, if the threads are scheduled in > round-robin fashion, they could constantly knock each others' working set > out of the CPU caches.
Until it gets very easy to handle all the blocking issues properly, it seems like this is a penalty many people are going to be willing to take. -- Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com
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