Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946037AbXBCP0T (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:26:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946299AbXBCP0T (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:26:19 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44575 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946037AbXBCP0T (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:26:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release. From: Arjan van de Ven To: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <45C362D2.2040407@tmr.com> References: <66910A579C9312469A7DF9ADB54A8B7D5C2B90@exchange.ZeugmaSystems.local> <45C362D2.2040407@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:26:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1170516376.3073.1015.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 18 > 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 ;) > -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/