Hari Krishna wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> May be basic, but i would like to know whether the switching
> between two kernel processes ( those which are created by using
> kernel_thread()) is faster than the switching between two user level
No, depends on schedule flags.
> processes(those which are created by using fork())?. Is there any
> advantage for kernel processes?
The process is a part of the kernel and has access to some kernel
resources.
Petkan
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