From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:11:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDC08AF.7020107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021120215540.GA11879@bjl1.asuk.net>
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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I don't buy this argument. You block signals, do something, unblock
> signals. There may be a _tiny_ delay in delivering the signal
Tiny? You said yourself that fork can be expensive.
> - of
> the order of a single system call time, i.e. not significant. (That
> delay is much shorter than signal delivery time itself). No signals
> are actually _lost_,
Of course they can get lost. Normal Unix signals are not queued.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-20 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-11-17 18:54 ` [patch] threading fix, tid-2.5.47-A3 Linus Torvalds
2002-11-17 20:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-17 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-17 19:54 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-17 21:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-17 20:16 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-17 21:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-17 20:35 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-17 20:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-17 20:49 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-17 22:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-17 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-17 23:23 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-18 1:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-18 3:33 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-18 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-18 3:58 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-18 4:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-18 4:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-18 6:46 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-18 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-18 8:07 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-18 8:21 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-18 8:27 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-18 9:30 ` [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0 Ingo Molnar
2002-11-18 8:29 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-18 12:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-18 12:11 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-20 1:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-20 1:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-20 3:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-20 4:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-20 21:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-20 22:11 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2002-11-20 23:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-20 23:28 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-21 0:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-21 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-21 12:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-21 0:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-20 8:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-20 9:51 ` [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.48-A1 Ingo Molnar
2002-11-20 8:41 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-20 20:20 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-21 18:03 ` [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.48-C0 Ingo Molnar
2002-11-21 19:30 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-18 8:30 ` [patch] threading fix, tid-2.5.47-A3 Luca Barbieri
2002-11-18 12:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-18 12:50 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-18 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-18 13:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-18 13:03 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-11-18 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-18 16:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-11-18 1:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-18 3:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-18 22:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-17 23:37 ` Ulrich Drepper
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