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Abstract: User-level threads have performance and flexibility advantages over both Unix-like processes and kernel threads. However, the performance of user-level threads may suffer in multiprogrammed environments, or when threads block in the kernel (e.g., for I/O). These problems can be particularly severe in tasks that communicate frequently using IPC (e.g., multithreaded servers), due to interactions between the user-level thread scheduler and the operating system IPC primitives. Efficient IPC... (Update)
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M. Feeley, J. Chase, and E. Lazowska, User-level threads and interprocess communication, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Technical Report 93-02-03, 1993. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/feeley93userlevel.html More
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author = "Michael J. Feeley and Jeffrey S. Chase and Edward D. Lazowska",
title = "User-Level Threads and Interprocess Communication",
number = "UW-CSE-93-02-03",
year = "1993",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/feeley93userlevel.html" }
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