Feature request: ability to use libeio with multiple event loops

[Brandon Black]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Hongli Lai <hongli at phusion.nl> wrote:

> 2. Suppose the system has two cores and N = 4, so two processes or two
> threads will be scheduled on a single core. A context switch to
> another thread on the same core should be cheaper because 1) the MMU
> register does not have to swapped and 2) no existing TLB entries have
> to be invalidated.
>
>
In the general case for real-world software, running N heavily loaded
threads on one CPU core is going to be less efficient than using a single
thread/process with a non-blocking event loop on that one CPU core.  That's
the point of the (fairly well settled, IMHO) debate between
many-blocking-threads-per-core and one-eventloop-thread-per-core.  So your
point (2) doesn't really fall in favor of threads because you're talking
about a scenario they're not optimal for to begin with.  The debate here is
really about one process per core versus one thread per core (and the fine
details of the differences between processes and threads, and how
scheduling them is more or less efficient on a given CPU and OS given
roughly nprocs == nthreads == ncores).

-- Brandon
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