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Re: Linux kernel-level threading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Wed Aug 7 09:58:41 1996
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 07:56:24 -0400
To: neil@hardy.imperial.co.uk, pthreads@MIT.EDU
Bryan O'Sullivan recently had a good article on threads in the general
threads newsgroup.
It's often faster to switch among threads in user-space, then to cross
the system boundary and context-switch. Most systems with kernel
threads therefore multiplex some user-space threads onto a single
kernel thread. AIX 4 is the only exception that I know about.
