Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:18:51 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Performance regression in 2.6.7-rc3 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>I think balance on clone probably needs to be turned off by default >>presently. >> >>It slows down a simple thread creation test by a factor of 7(!) here, >>and has quite a few not too difficult to imagine performance problems. > > > I agree. However, I still think we should do my suggested > "wake_up_new(p,clone_flags)" thing, and then have the logic on whether to > try to care about threading or not be in schedule.c, not in kernel/fork.c. > > The fact is, fork.c shouldn't try to make scheduling decisions. But it > could inform the scheduler about the new process, and THAT can then make > the decisions. >
I agree, it is a fine suggestion. Would be a trivial change, and would clean things up nicely. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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