* Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> 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. 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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