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

[Bill Davidsen]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 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 ;)
How does that work? Switching between kernel threads requires going into 
the kernel, user level thread switches are all done in user mode.

Do you have some way to change o/s threads w/o going into the kernel?

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