Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> but if the application /has/ identified fundamental parallelism, we 
> /must not/ shut that parallelism off by /designing/ this interface to 
> use the fibril thing which is a limited cooperative, single-CPU entity. 

Right. We should for example encourage people to use some kind of 
paralellizing construct. 

I know! We could even call them "threads", so to give people the idea that 
they are independent smaller entities in a thicker "rope", and we could 
call that bigger entity a "task" or "process", since it "processes" data.

Or is that just too far out?

			Linus
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