Re: [apache-plusplus] Process model ideas for C++ Apache.

[Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>]

On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michael Anderson wrote:

> Dean Gaudet wrote:
> 
> > For example, NT's completion ports restart the most
> > recently blocked thread because it's most likely to still be
> > in the caches.
> 
> Sounds like a recipe for starvation of other threads. And I'm
> not sure haow effective that would be - threads block for a
> reason, and if that reason still exists, that thread can't run
> and may be subsequently flushed from the cache before the reason
> is satisfied.

No you misunderstand.  It's a thread/fiber model.  The fibers aren't
starved.  The threads are virtual cpus... and can run any fiber.  They
talk about it in the JAWS papers. 

Dean