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0 pointsdmitrygr4y ago0 comments

That limits your OS to numThreads < numCpus

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bob10294y ago· 2 in thread

What if we have multiple classes of threads with varying scheduling and interruption policies?

Either you have interrupts to interrupt them, you have more cores than threads, or you risk starvation. Simple.

No opportunity for nuance wherein some of the compute resources are reserved for certain types of threads?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse