Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:33:56 +0000 (GMT) |
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> one solution in linux is to just launch off another thread to do the > io which'll get stuck in kernel mode, not the whole process. but this > is kind of cheesy, and has the overhead of creating a new thread.
Its not much of an overhead - 11uS for the clone and exit. Your I/O will probably swallow that. You dont have to create a thread for each I/O either just for each currently pending parallel I/O - you can keep a pair of friends around for I/O
Alan
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