On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, John Regehr wrote:
>
> > > > Have you tried benchmarking process to process context switch times to see
> > > > if the results are similar?
> >
> > No, that's a good idea.  My infrastructure isn't set up to support
> > processes, though, so it'll take a little time.
>
> I'd be surprised if there was a difference in context switch times...

Well, there would be if the linux kernel has specific task-switching
optimizations for threads.  That would tell us if the overhead is
linuxthread-specific, or generalized.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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