Re: Threads (was Re: MSI interrupts)

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

Unix SVR4ES/MP actually had
both kernel threads (called lightweight processes (LWP)) and user-level
threads in an M-N setup (M user threads multiplexed on N kernel threads).
>
Didn't turn out to be particularly useful.

Maybe the SVR4ES/MP stuff was not particularly useful.  Combining
user-level threads and kernel threads in an M-N setup has turned out
to be very useful in, e.g., Erlang applications.

- anton
--
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>