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		MichaelGG on Nov 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The future of M:N threading The note about Windows User-Mode Scheduling is really neat - it makes mmap much more usable when you can switch out on a page fault. Is there such a thing available for Linux?

onedognight on Nov 14, 2013 [–]

There is no User-Mode scheduling in the Linux Kernel to my knowledge, but the video[1] mentioned the post describes Linux patches that add support for it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw

MichaelGG on Nov 14, 2013 | [–]

Shame. mmap is so handy, but blocking on page faults makes it annoying to work with.

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