Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

Bill Huey (billh@gnuppy.monkey.org)
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:03:46 -0700


On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:55:39PM +0200, Peter Waechtler wrote:
> AIX and Irix deploy M:N - I guess for a good reason: it's more
> flexible and combine both approaches with easy runtime tuning if
> the app happens to run on SMP (the uncommon case).

Also, for process scoped scheduling in a way so that system wide threads
don't have an impact on a process slice. Folks have piped up about that
being important.

bill

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