[netperf-dev] issues uncovered by the glib porting

[Rick Jones]

it seems that the port to glib may be uncovering some issues - 
particularly wrt processor affinity for the different threads.

the types for the "thread id's" between pthreads and glib threads are 
rather different.  different enough that I've not quite found a decent 
abstraction for them that satisfies the compiler (gcc under linux in 
this case) for both compilation choices (configure and configure 
--with-glib)

also, while a pthread_t can be passed-in to sched_setaffinity, or the 
HP-UX affinity calls - or so it seems, a GThread cannot.

I would switch to using say pthread_self() in those situations, but that 
will not work at present  - mainly because it is not the thread itself 
that makes the affinity call, it is the main netserver thread.

so, the netserver thread needs to know the "scheduling" thread id, which 
means knowing how to delve into the opaque GTread type, or we need to 
structure the code such that the affinity calls are made by the threads 
themselves

thoughts?

rick