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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	piggin@cyberone.com.au, akpm@osdl.org, wli@holomorphy.com,
	markw@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Performance regression in 2.6.7-rc3
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:02:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040616070240.GA25910@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406152009220.4142@ppc970.osdl.org>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> I agree. However, I still think we should do my suggested
> "wake_up_new(p,clone_flags)" thing, and then have the logic on whether
> to try to care about threading or not be in schedule.c, not in
> kernel/fork.c.
> 
> The fact is, fork.c shouldn't try to make scheduling decisions. But it
> could inform the scheduler about the new process, and THAT can then
> make the decisions.

agreed, and i did it in a similar way initially (by adding the clone
flags to wake_up_process()) but went for the smaller patch. The only
reason i pushed it into fork.c initially was to avoid having to change
dozens of other files (most of them in various architectures) that use
wake_up_process(). It wasnt (and still isnt) clear at all whether we
want to do any fork/clone-time balancing.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-16  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-12  0:28 [PATCH] Performance regression in 2.6.7-rc3 Con Kolivas
2004-06-12  7:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-15  4:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-06-15 13:11   ` Con Kolivas
2004-06-15 15:02   ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-16  2:14     ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-16  3:05       ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-16  3:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-16  3:18           ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-16  7:02           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-06-16  3:09       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-16 14:54         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-16  3:00   ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-16  1:22     ` Con Kolivas

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