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From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:07:21 +1000
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:59:36 -0700 (MST) ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, George Michaelson wrote:
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>> what happens on MP systems?
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>not sure what you're driving at.

on an MP system, the forked process/thread has chances to be run on a distinct
CPU underneath. I would have thought the complexity of managing a shared stack
was magnified in that circumstance.

process migration -wise?

-George