linux-kernel - Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

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Date:	Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:26:16 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha
	release.


> Because user threading can avoid context switches, there will always be 
> cases where it will outperform o/s threads for hardware reasons.

actually.. switching from one "real" thread to another in Linux is not
an actual context switch in the hardware sense... at least this part of
your argument seems to be incorrect ;)

> 
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