Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:30:34 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62 |
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jeff Garzik 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.
it already has to create/destroy the main PID directory, so i cannot see a big difference.
> 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.
yuck ...
Ingo
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