From d28d90460b62df3bfcab25e953daebc4323da225 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 19:44:29 +0200 Subject: open_issues/multithreading: New. --- open_issues/multithreading.mdwn | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/multithreading.mdwn (limited to 'open_issues') diff --git a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..82cf304a --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 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 +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + +Hurd servers / VFS libraries are multithreaded, 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. + +The [[hurd/Critique]] should have some more on this. + + +Alternative approaches: + + * Continuation-passing style + + * [libtcr - Threaded Coroutine Library](http://oss.linbit.com/libtcr/) -- cgit v1.2.3