Alien thread explained

In computing, an alien thread in a multi-processor system is a thread of program execution executed by one processor on behalf of a process running on another processor.[1] Alien threads are implemented in the Fiasco.OC/L4 microkernel operating system.

Notes and References

  1. Implementing Distributed Mutual Exclusion on Multithreaded Environments: The Alien-Threads Approach . Federico Meza . Jorge Pérez R. . Yadran Eterovic . 51–62 . 10.1007/11533962_6 . International Symposium and School on Advanced Distributed Systems (LNCS vol. 3563) . January 2005 . Guadalajara, Mexico . 2010-02-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110707012429/http://ing.utalca.cl/~fmeza/papers/issads2005a.pdf . 2011-07-07 . dead .

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