On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:49:24 -0500
Brian Fundakowski Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BFF> Since you're using user threads, not kernel threads, the kernel can only
BFF> have one "object" (poll or select list, or kqueue file descriptor) to wait
BFF> upon at any given time. Since kqueues are pollable, what happens is
BFF> that the kqueue along with every other fd being polled/selected are all
BFF> polled by a single poll(2) system call. Yes, your kqueue is being used,
BFF> but it has an indirection of another poll(2) system call determining
BFF> when your kevent(2) thread should be woken up.
Brian, thank a lot for your explanation!
So, pthreads since they are user threads do not provide concurrency on
multiprocessor systems?
And by the way, are there another ways to have kernel threads in FreeBSD 4.x
applications, rather than use LinuxThreads port or implement it via rfork'ed
processes?
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