User-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it as the key explanation of cooperative, user-scheduled kernel threads and the prior art behind later async and coroutine debates.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Linux Plumbers Conference

Topic

user-level threading

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Paul Turner explained this really well at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference. The whole talk is fantastic, but the explanation of what pron is describing in particular (and how it could be improved) starts around 8:39: [VIDEO]

• If you're interested in this area you might like this talk from the Linux plumbers' conference: "Over the past year we've been looking at how a uniform, performant, synchronous programming model can be implemented across all of Google's core languages (C++, Java, Go, Python), while …

• Oh OK, I definitely could have written that better. From what I can tell, M:N threading has been thoroughly abandoned by Linux, but it might be worth revisiting given the horrendous I/O scaling of Linux kernel threads. I would imagine scheduling user threads cooperatively simplifies …