On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, J. Dow wrote:
> Dan, another thing to consider with multithreading is that it is a way
> to avoid "convoy" effects if there is a nice priority mechanism for
> first in first out messaging. [...]
yep, this is a frequent problem at the level of the kernel. We fixed such
a (longtime) performance bug just a couple of weeks ago in the TCP-accept
logic. We are using FIFO in most places where multiple contexts are
waiting. But is 'shared everything multithreading' the natural solution
for this? Nope, that statement is misleading. 'Multi-contexting' is the
solution. Those contexts can be 'shared-everything threads' or 'isolated
processes' as well.
Ingo
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