Subject: Re: Linux scheduler (scheduling)  questions
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: "Povolotsky, Alexander" <Alexander.Povolotsky@marconi.com>
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:17:13 +0200
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On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 08:51 -0400, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote:

> 5. Deviating from the scheduling line of questions (but staying with threads
> issues): is there an option in clone(2)  to make threads 
>    not to run in the same  address space but rather act as independent
> process(es).

If you want something in a different address space, then you want a
process. Threads of the same process share the whole address space
(except they have their own stack) and this have some advantages, like
faster CPU context switching between threads of the same process, and
faster creation times, among others.


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