Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:33:35 -0400 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than onnative Linux" |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > So you would prefer a two level threads library ? > > Read as "continuations in user space"? Sure.
Solaris (and possibly the upcoming BSD threads support) will map threads onto kernel threads as needed. Provides better scaling. But it's really a glibc issue. LinuxThreads author Xavier Leroy (I think) decided to do a 1:1 mapping. LinuxThreads became the glibc pthreads implementation.
End of story.
Standardized light weight threads would be nice. Does the kernel evenhave to provide any additional support to make them possible? Or can the glibc guys just bang them out?
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