On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:04:08 -0400, Adam Jackson <a...@nwnk.net> wrote:

> Threads will help when we're in D state, but only to the extent that
> they're not blocked by the main server.  If the server is holding a read
> lock for the input queue, we're still going to lose if we try to write
> to it from another thread.

We can construct a lockless input queue; we've got a single writer and
a single reader.

Otherwise, yes, using a thread would be a huge improvement.

-- 
keith.pack...@intel.com

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