Re: let's make libpager single-threaded

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Justus Winter, le Mon 05 May 2014 17:23:10 +0200, a écrit :
> Just to make sure I got my idea across.  With my change, a single
> thread would service all requests to disk pagers, another one would
> manage the requests to file pagers.

Sure.

> And those requests are mostly
> IO-bound, and as far as I understand it our IO layer cannot acommodate
> concurrent operations.

That is the current layer, yes, but I hope that the DDE or Rump layer
for disks does have concurrent operation support.

> If so, more threads does not mean getting more work done.

As of now, yes, that's why I was mentioning using just one thread for
now.

Samuel