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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:55:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220165540.GA17006@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b330qj$sri$1@news.cistron.nl>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:47:15PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302201656030.30000-100000@localhost.localdomain>,
> Ingo Molnar  <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >the fix for this is two-fold. First, it must be possible for procps to
> >separate 'threads' from 'processes' without having to go into 16 thousand
> >directories. I solved this by prefixing 'threads' (ie. non-group-leader
> >threads) with a dot ('.') character in the /proc listing:
> 
> Why not put threads belonging to a thread group into /proc/17072/threads ?

I'm also inclined to think this is a good idea.  We could even choose
to use /proc/17072/lwp, to match Solaris, but it's probably not worth
it since the semantics are different.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-20 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20 16:33 [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62 Ingo Molnar
2003-02-20 16:47 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-20 16:55   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-02-20 17:00 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-02-20 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-20 17:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-20 17:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-21  7:38       ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-02-20 17:23     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-22 20:52       ` Albert Cahalan
2003-02-22 21:55         ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-22 23:04           ` Albert Cahalan
2003-02-23 18:49         ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-23 21:51           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2003-02-24  9:28             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-24 11:12               ` Albert D. Cahalan
2003-02-24 11:26                 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-24 12:29                   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2003-02-24 12:41                     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-24 12:45                     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-24 12:52                     ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-24  9:38             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-24 12:13               ` Albert D. Cahalan
2003-02-20 17:28     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-20 17:30       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-02-20 17:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-20 17:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-20 19:13     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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