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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Task watchers v2
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:41:59 -0800
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Matt wrote:
> - Task watchers can actually improve kernel performance slightly (up to
> 2% in extremely fork-heavy workloads for instance).

Nice.

Could you explain why?

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