[Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler)

[Bill Janssen]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 May 2010 15:13:44 PDT
> Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > 
> > So the patch to the threading code would presumably, for those OSs where
> > the capability exists, try to put all created threads in the same
> > affinity set.
> 
> This is not really a good idea. There's some code which releases the
> GIL, precisely so that you can run several threads (computations) at
> once.

Could the macro that releases the GIL also release the thread affinity?
And the macro that acquires it again set the affinity tag back again?

Bill