From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265115AbUF2PRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:17:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265366AbUF2PRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:17:20 -0400 Received: from 153.Red-213-4-13.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.4.13.153]:14084 "EHLO kerberos.felipe-alfaro.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265115AbUF2PRT (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:17:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux scheduler (scheduling) questions From: Felipe Alfaro Solana To: "Povolotsky, Alexander" Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'andrebalsa@altern.org'" , "'Richard E. Gooch'" , "'Ingo Molnar'" , "'rml@tech9.net'" , "'akpm@osdl.org'" In-Reply-To: <313680C9A886D511A06000204840E1CF08F42FA3@whq-msgusr-02.pit.comms.marconi.com> References: <313680C9A886D511A06000204840E1CF08F42FA3@whq-msgusr-02.pit.comms.marconi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:17:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1088522233.1709.2.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.9.2 (1.5.9.2-1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 08:51 -0400, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote: > 5. Deviating from the scheduling line of questions (but staying with threads > issues): is there an option in clone(2) to make threads > not to run in the same address space but rather act as independent > process(es). If you want something in a different address space, then you want a process. Threads of the same process share the whole address space (except they have their own stack) and this have some advantages, like faster CPU context switching between threads of the same process, and faster creation times, among others.