home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie
- From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Scheduling in Shared Memory Multiprocessor Systems
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.105807.57518@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 10:58:06 MDT
- References: <1992Jul15.040528.16289@access.usask.ca> <GLEW.92Jul23215649@pdx007.intel.com> <1992Jul24.183213.9699@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Utah State University
- Lines: 10
-
- In article <1992Jul24.183213.9699@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson) writes:
- > Isn't this an artifact of the Vax architecture having 32 hardware
- > queues and instructions to manipulate them? Have most BSD vendors
- > kept this structure or gone with something radically different?
-
- The VAX can handle as many queues as you have memory for. It does, however,
- have only 32 interrupt priority levels.
-
- Roger Ivie
- ivie@cc.usu.edu
-