Re: deferred rss update instead of sloppy rss

Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22T22:22:30Z

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> The problem is then that the proc filesystem must do an extensive scan
> over all threads to find users of a certain mm_struct.

The alternative is to just add a simple list into the task_struct and the
head of it into mm_struct. Then, at fork, you just finish the fork() with

list_add(p->mm_list, p->mm->thread_list);

and do the proper list_del() in exit_mm() or wherever.

You'll still loop in /proc, but you'll do the minimal loop necessary.

Linus