Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of AppMultiThread

Timestamp:

Mar 13, 2008, 8:57:28 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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AppMultiThread

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 and we may use more RAM than needed.
 
-Our scheduling policy, given N CPUs, is:
-
- * Given a set of runnable applications A1, A2 (ordered by priority or deadline), run applications until the number of actual threads exceeds N.
+Given a list of runnable applications (ordered by priority or deadline),
+the CPU scheduler runs applications until the number of threads reaches a limit.
+If the user has specified a limit N on the number of CPUs to use,
+the number of threads cannot exceed N.
+Otherwise, the scheduler stop when the number of threads is >= NCPUS.
 
 == Notes ==