On 1/24/06, Pranav Peshwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip]
> What is the difference between a kernel thread and a normal process > created using fork ? except the address space sharing with swapper and more than one kernel thread can be associated with a process and they all share the same address space. kernel mode execution of the kthread. Is a kthread effectively just a > process always running in kernel mode ? you mean - effectively just a kernel process? A kernel thread can be associated with one or more userland threads, but a kernel process doesn't have anything associated with it in userspace. Further, more than one kernel thread can share a single U area/user address space. When they were first introduced -Sun microsystems referred to kernel threads as light-weight processes, which is what you seem to have concluded. regards -kamal TIA. > > Regards, > Pranav. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
