Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:28:57 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62 |
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:14:38PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It would just be _so_ much nicer if the threads would show up as > > subdirectories ie /proc/<tgid>/<tid>/xxx. More scalable, more readable, > > and just generally more sane. > > Al says that this cannot be done sanely, and is fraught with security > problems. I'd vote for it if it were possible. Al?
Having the kernel automatically manage creation/destruction of directories is the sticking point, AFAIK.
Why not use the "squid method"? Create directories 00..FF, and sort the pids/tids into buckets that way. Then you are not creating and destroying directories all the time.
Jeff
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