Symmetric Multi Processing

[mikeg]

Hello,

I just think about the possibility to support more than one CPU core. I have a AMD 64 X2 Dual core. What about to support that by using e.g. OpenMP library?

Regards

Mike

[Crystan]

It does already, not sure about 2.3.

[mikeg]

Thank you for the information, I never saw this.

[Mattn]

we are using threads for the server logic, random map assembly and the renderer (sv_threads and r_threads cvars)

but we are not using opemmp

[mikeg]

Hello Mattn,

am I right with that when I'm saying that a thread is <not> a multi processing with more than one core? I mean that thread <main> is executed by core 1 and thread <renderer> is executed e.g. by core 2 while sound generation is done by core 3, and so on.

As I read the specs correct, threads simulate by processor-time-sharing that many processes are executed at the same time. The operating system will do this using software interrupts. This is why threads are working on single core cpus, too.

I will just take a look into the source where threads are generated and see how this is done. Maybe there is a possible issue to speed up performance.

Best regards

Mike