State of threads?

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Jul 8 08:50:01 PDT 2004


:> beginning of the framwork exists (userland LWKT). Other parts of
:> the system had a greater need for work.
:> 
:> libc_r is still the n:1 threading and therefore can't take advantage
:> of SMP other than the normal multi-processing.
:> 
:> Joerg
:
:With the LWKT, what model will it adopt? n:1 n:m? just a little curious.
:
:Thanks in advanced,
:
:Matty

    The goal is a N:M threading model with the kernel only aware of the
    'N' part.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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