Re: Adaptive thread creation by the kernel

From: Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 05:48:10 EST


Chuck Lever wrote:
> this is exactly what an interface like mincore() is designed for. the
> application, or an underlying threads library, can use it to avoid page
> faults that would block all the threads running in an address space.

You want to read part of one of your mmap()ed files. How do you check
if it's going to fault?

-- Jamie

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