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Re:Linux 3.13 by pshc on Monday January 20, 2014 @03:43PM (#7091631)
Anyone heard any news on Google's user mode thread[1] kernel syscalls? I was really excited for that when it was announced but haven't heard a peep about it since.

[1]http://youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw

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Re:Linux 3.13 by gcr on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:05PM (#7092503)
Is this similar to the old "Scheduler Activations" idea? http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tom/pubs/sched_act.pdf

I'd love to see that idea wind up in a mainstream kernel.

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Re:Linux 3.13 by twic on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:06PM (#7092735)
It was in FreeBSD!

http://www.freebsd.cz/kse/index.html

For some reason, it didn't work out, and FreeBSD switched back to conventional threads, around 7.0, i think.

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Re:Linux 3.13 by nopaste7 on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:42PM (#7092188)
They never showed up on LKML.
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