From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:08:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827170839.GS2793@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040827170143.GA31918@k3.hellgate.ch>
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:08 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I see no evidence that this will be a speedup with large numbers of
>> processes, as the problematic algorithms are preserved wholesale.
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:01:43PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> It doesn't fundamentally change the complexity, but I expect the
> reduction in overhead to be noticeable, mostly due to:
> - no more string parsing.
> - fewer system calls.
> - fewer cycles wasted on calculating unnecessary data fields.
After some closer review it appears recent algorithmic improvements
are largely orthogonal to your interface change; the new interface
may just call the improved algorithms.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-27 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 12:24 [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 12:24 ` [1/2][PATCH] " Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 13:39 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 12:24 ` [2/2][sample code] nproc: user space app Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 14:50 ` [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information James Morris
2004-08-27 15:26 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 16:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-27 16:37 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-27 16:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-27 17:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 17:08 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-28 19:45 ` [BENCHMARK] " Roger Luethi
2004-08-28 19:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 20:14 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 16:05 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 17:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:52 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 18:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 19:00 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 20:17 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-29 20:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 21:45 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-29 22:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 21:41 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 23:31 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-30 7:16 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-30 10:31 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-30 10:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-30 12:23 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-30 12:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-30 13:43 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-29 19:07 ` Paul Jackson
2004-08-29 19:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 19:49 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 20:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-31 10:16 ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-31 15:34 ` [BENCHMARK] nproc: Look Ma, No get_tgid_list! Roger Luethi
2004-08-31 19:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
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