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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 20:05:38 +1100 (EST)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?Jack=20Nielsen?= <jacknielsen2003@yahoo.com.au>
To:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Threads in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20021215090538.9378.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> If you are really interested in this, the original KSE discussions
> were in usenet news groups from 1994 and again in 1996.  One of
> the participants was the architect of the threads in Solaris.  The
> 1:1 model is definitely suboptimal, since it increases kernel/user
> boundary crossing frequency significantly.

With Solaris 9, Sun has moved from a M:N to a 1:1 implementation.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/multithread.pdf


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