Subj : Re: pthread priority in Linux 2.4 Kernel
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 08:28 pm


"forSale" <@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:QO6dnYKiLIR3cnLfRVn-sA@magma.ca...

> Hi David,

> I see what you are seeing. You are saying if  Linux runs on multipe 
> virtual
> CPUs, then each CPU can runs its a thread.Thus allowing all thread
> regardless of its priroty to run concurrently. How do I control the 
> virtual
> CPU. How do I configure only 1 virtual CPU.

> How do I know how many virtual CPU the current linux is running on.

    You are totally, totally going down the wrong road. You *CANNOT* use the 
scheduler as a synhronization mechanism. If you need synchronization and 
exclusion, you need to use things like mutexes.

    DS

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