Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:53:14 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> > so ... is anyone pursuing this? This would allow us to make > > sys_wait4() faster and more scalable: no tasklist_lock bouncing for > > example. > > which part?
all of it :) Everything you mentioned makes sense quite a bit. The thread signal handling of do_wait was added in a pretty arbitrary fashion so i doubt there are strong requirements in that area. Apps might have grown to get used to it meanwhile though, so we've got to do it carefully.
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