Nick Hibma wrote:
>
> Being multi-threaded has almost nothing to do with being
> multi-processor. Multi-threading means that your application has
> multiple threads of execution that are able to run simultaneously.
>
> The multi-processing capability of your box means that 2 threads of
> execution, be it a process or a thread within a process, are executed
> _literally_ at the same time, and not in simulated concurrency like it
> happens on a UP box.
Note that this happens ONLY if both threads of execution are processor
mobile. If your system supports user-space threads as part of a
process and the process can't be split across CPUs, you might as well
have a UP system. (Except everything else can run on the other
processor, so SMP is still a small win.)
This is the situation with threads and SMP in -current.
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