Hi,
I am new to linux . I have gone thorugh some documents about pthread (NTPL ) in linux 2.6 kernel . As per that linux uses 1: 1 threading model and for each user level thread there is kernel level thread . Pthread_create uses clone system call to create a LWP and the kernel could treat that as a LWP and do scheduling and all .( different from linuxthread) . My question is what's meant by there is kernel level thread for each pthread created . Can I see the kernel level thread if I call pthread_create using ps .

What exactly meant by 1:1 .I mean for each user level thread there is kernel level thread . If I make a system call from a thread does the OS services that action via kernel thread ( created using kernel_thread () or some other way ) internally ..

Thanks
Pradeep

Thanks
Pradeep

As a rule everything that is done in userspace cannot access anything in kernel space. So from the information you have given me it sounds like for every userspace thread requested and created there is a corresponding kernel thread created to actually perform the action. They are linked across the userspace kernelspace border so that work can actually be done. This may be incorrect however. I would recommend you research it a little more.