Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:32:50 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK |
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 07:49:39AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Basically, the nondeterministic behavior of these things is NMI oopsing >> my machines and those of users (who often just cut the power instead of >> running the NMI oopser). get_pid() is actually not the primary offender, >> but is known to be problematic along with the rest of them.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:31:54PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > Sorry - I cannot parse this. Who are "these things" and "them"?
Functions exhaustively searching or otherwise iterating over the whole list of all tasks.
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