From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932682Ab1KKQSY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:18:24 -0500 Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.232.25]:43664 "EHLO relay.sw.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932163Ab1KKQSX (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:18:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4EBD4ACB.2070001@parallels.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:18:19 +0400 From: Pavel Emelyanov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , Cyrill Gorcunov , Glauber Costa , Nathan Lynch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Serge Hallyn , Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] pids: Make it possible to clone tasks with given pids References: <4EBC0696.9030103@parallels.com> <4EBC06DB.3090202@parallels.com> <20111110184654.GA1006@redhat.com> <20111110185603.GA1757@redhat.com> <4EBCF4E7.4090002@parallels.com> <20111111152532.GA22640@redhat.com> <4EBD461E.1000106@parallels.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/11/2011 08:10 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: >> It's highly unlikely that the ability to fork in parallel would >> contribute to any meaningful speedup. That is not the critical path by >> *far* > > To add a bit, it's also one of the more *serialized* path. Doing it in > parallel might actually hurt, Can you elaborate on this, please? > so if losing the ability to do it makes it less intrusive, that's the > better way. >