Light Weight Kernel Threads (LWKT) is a
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
term and from
DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began working on DragonFly BSD in ...
in particular. LWKTs differ from normal
kernel threads in that they can
preempt normal
kernel threads. According to
Matt Dillon, DragonFlyBSD creator:
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Light-weight process
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Thread (computing)
In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system. In many cases, a thread is a component of a pr ...
Sources
Matt Dillon's post about the LWKT scheduler*
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Threads (computing)
DragonFly BSD
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