Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

> So I think we have some options once we get the kernel threads out
> of the way.  Getting the kernel threads out of the way would seem
> to be the first priority.

I think both avenues would probably be the right way to proceeed.
Getting kthreads to not be parented by init would be an opportunity
for optimization.

I think organizing the zombie tasks to be easily reaped also has merit.
Rapidly forking/exiting processes like udevd during the boot of a
different machine were also shown to benefit significantly from this
patch.  That machine had 512 cpus and 4608 disk devices, we dropped the
device discovery under udevd by 30%.  This, honestly, surprised us.
It makes some sense now that I think about it.  This would be a case
where improving the zombie handling would be beneficial to more than
just kthreads.

Thanks,
Robin
-
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/