RE: Re: NGPT 2.2.0 RELEASED: TOPS LINUXTHREADS AND NPTL IN SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

"Howell, David P" <[email protected]>
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Lots of difference, the primary being NGPT's default M:N vs the NPTL 1:1
threading model.

Dave Howell

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David Howell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Giorgio Zoppi (deneb) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pthreads-devel] Re: NGPT 2.2.0 RELEASED: TOPS LINUXTHREADS
AND NPTL IN SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> On Friday 10 January 2003 20:58, Bill Abt wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> > In this release, the primary focus was performance.  Significant
> > performance and scalability enhance-
> > ments have been made to this release making it the fastest and most
> > scalable POSIX compliant
> > threads package available on the Linux platform.
BTW. I saw in lkml, the current threading model, which uses futex, 
is 1:1, the so called Native Posix Threading Library. 
What difference are there between the actual model, and
the model you propose?
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