Re: 1:1 M:N threading

From: jpo234
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 04:13:53 EST


remi.colinet@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> For 2.6, the default is NGPT (see
> http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/pthreads/) which is 1:1.

NGPT is frozen and in maintenance mode (which is a different
wording for "dead"). See
http://www-124.ibm.com/pthreads/docs/announcement
The new default Linux pthread implementation is RedHats NPTL. See
http://people.redhat.com/~drepper/nptl-design.pdf
for details, which btw. is 1:1 as well.

Regards
jpo

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