[ntp:hackers] Patches to reinstate rank variable and add
endkeyword.
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Aug 7 17:22:31 UTC 2005
In message <022601c59b73$620b4fe0$131313ac at djt.edi>, "David J Taylor" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <007501c59b19$1b7690d0$131313ac at djt.edi>, "David J Taylor"
>> writes:
>>
>>> Many of today's present processors and perhaps most of tomorrow's
>>> will be either hyperthreading, dual-core or both. Code which is not
>>> compatible this will be a pain.
>>
>> This does not affect their ability to run an eventdriven program.
>>
>> And if ntpd needs to be multithreaded because it needs access to more
>> than one CPU/core at a time, then something is has gone badly wrong.
>
>I was responding to Paul's statement:
>
>" "eventlib" is _not_ multiprocessor compatible".
He should have said "eventlib does not exploit multipleprocessor".
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