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Just an in-kernel thread pool

Just an in-kernel thread pool

Posted Jan 29, 2009 15:41 UTC (Thu) by aliguori (subscriber, #30636)
Parent article: LCA: A new approach to asynchronous I/O

I'm skeptical of this approach because it's simply an in-kernel thread pool. There's nothing about it that cannot be implemented today in userspace.

Yes, one can argue that in the future, we could do smarter things about thread scheduling in the kernel but one could also argue that we could equally well expose those knobs down to userspace.


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