[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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