Re: threading question

[Philips <philips@iph.to>]

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"J . A . Magallon" wrote:
> 
> On 20010613 Kurt Garloff wrote:
> >
> > What I do in my numerics code to avoid this problem, is to create all the
> > threads (as many as there are CPUs) on program startup and have then wait
> > (block) for a condition. As soon as there's something to to, variables for
> > the thread are setup (protected by a mutex) and the thread gets signalled
> > (cond_signal).
> > If you're interested in the code, tell me.
> >
> 
> I use the reverse approach. you feed work to the threads, I create the threads
> and let them ask for work to a master until it says 'done'. When the
> master is queried for work, it locks a mutex, decide the next work for
> that thread, and unlocks it. I think it gives the lesser contention and
> is simpler to manage.
> 

	BTW. 
	Question was poping in my mind and finally got negative answer by my mind ;-)

	Is it possible to make somethis like:


	char a[100] = {...}
	char b[100] = {...}
	char c[100];
	char d[100];
	
	1: { // run this on first CPU
		for (int i=0; i<100; i++) c[i] = a[i] + b[i];
	};
	2: { // run this on any other CPU
		for (int i=0; i<100; i++) d[i] = a[i] * b[i];
	};
	
	...
	// do something else...
	...
	
	wait 1,2; // to be sure c[] and d[] are ready.


	what was popping in my mind - some prefix (like 0x66 Intel used for 32
instructions) to say this instruction should run on other CPU?
	I know - stupid idea. Too many questions will arise. 
	If we will do 

	PREFIX jmp far some_routing

	and this routing will run on other CPU not blocking current execution thread.
	(who will clean stack? when?.. question without answers...)

	Is there anything like this in computerworld? I heard about old computers that
have a speacial instruction set to implicit run code on given processor.
	Is it possible to emulate this behavior on PCs?

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