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Comment by dschatz

Because if I use M:N threading then logically one of my user threads blocked and a different one should run during my timeslice. The kernel however is unaware of how I use the kernel thread and will block, believing that I cannot proceed.

1:1 threading lacks this problem but operations such as creating threads or deleting them require syscalls and are therefore relatively expensive.

parent dschatz 13 years ago

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