Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:44:23 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:30:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > : root 319 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 18:51 0:00 [pccardd] > > hm.
One per PC card socket to avoid the sysfs locking crappyness that would otherwise deadlock, and to convert from the old unreadable state machine implementation to a much more readable linearly coded implementation.
Could probably be eliminated if we had some mechanism to spawn a helper thread to do some task as required which didn't block other helper threads until it completes.
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