Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: hzhou@cs.utk.edu (Honbo Zhou)
Subject: Re: CFP: Special Issue of JPDC on Multithreading for Multiprocessors
Organization: CS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 7 Jul 1995 09:06:56 -0400
Message-ID: <3tjbhgINNii2@duncan.cs.utk.edu>

In article <3tgu0c$h77@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Matt Haines <haines@ete07-f.icase.edu> writes:
>          ------------------------------------------------------------
>                                Call for Papers
>                              Special Issue of the
>                 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
>                      Multithreading for Multiprocessors
>
>Recently, lightweight threads have received much attention in the area of
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is there a definition for lightweight threads? As is well known,
lightweight processes are threads, and I have also heard of 
"featherweight threads", but there seems no formal definitions given.

Do you mean user-level threads by lightweight threads? Compariong to kernel
level threads, user-level threads are lighter...

So you are only interested in "lightweight threads"?

I would appreciate if your experts out there could clarify the questions.

Thanks a lot.

Honbo Zhou

