Re: [boost] [asio] my review

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-12 17:30:37

On 12/12/05, Cory Nelson <phrosty_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> This is true.  It will awake another thread if an active one blocks.
> However if all of your threads decide to block you will have a dead
> cpu.  From what I understand, the builtin thread pool is able to see
> this usage and create/destroy threads to make sure you always have
> maximum CPU usage regardless of blocking.
>
> Does anyone have ideas on how you could do similar intelligent pooling
> without such OS support?

I think thats one of the aims of the "SEDA" architecture:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/

This is a lot more heavyweight of an idea than a simple thread pool however.

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Caleb Epstein
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