* Bill Huey <[email protected]> wrote: > > more than just changing locking behavior. Which is what brought me > > into this conversation in the first place. So removing that point > > of discord would be good. > > Yes, there are few places. It was primarily to handle the reaping > during the finishing parts of a fork. All in all, it's not at all a > critical path. no. It was primarily to move the put_task_struct() off the context-switch fastpath. (In comparison the fork use is much rarer) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] 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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