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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-03-27 21:37:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-03-27 21:37:59 +0200 |
| commit | 3f5b019c3f6e0c6e1683b2374cc86116251ecf2b (patch) | |
| tree | 318230b32e3aa98afa4a28a0c0855e86a78fc721 /open_issues/multithreading.mdwn | |
| parent | 51c4760238ec774f0eb4facb1eb17c4abd516029 (diff) | |
| parent | 4f51f8e21f1962a0749ec7081567f4916bab7910 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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diff --git a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn index 39203333..addc29c3 100644 --- a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -10,7 +10,21 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_hurd]] -Hurd servers / VFS libraries are multithreaded, roughly using one thread per +Hurd servers / VFS libraries are multithreaded. + + +# Implementation + + * well-known threading libraries + + * [[hurd/libthreads]] + + * [[hurd/libpthread]] + + +# Design + +Roughly using one thread per incoming request. This is not the best approach: it doesn't really make sense to scale the number of worker threads with the number of incoming requests, but instead they should be scaled according to the backends' characteristics. @@ -18,7 +32,9 @@ instead they should be scaled according to the backends' characteristics. The [[hurd/Critique]] should have some more on this. -Alternative approaches: +# Alternative approaches: + + * <http://www.concurrencykit.org/> * Continuation-passing style |