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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:08:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827170839.GS2793@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040827170143.GA31918@k3.hellgate.ch>

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:23:08 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I see no evidence that this will be a speedup with large numbers of
>> processes, as the problematic algorithms are preserved wholesale.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:01:43PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> It doesn't fundamentally change the complexity, but I expect the
> reduction in overhead to be noticeable, mostly due to:
> - no more string parsing.
> - fewer system calls.
> - fewer cycles wasted on calculating unnecessary data fields.

After some closer review it appears recent algorithmic improvements
are largely orthogonal to your interface change; the new interface
may just call the improved algorithms.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-27 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-27 12:24 [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 12:24 ` [1/2][PATCH] " Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 13:39   ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 12:24 ` [2/2][sample code] nproc: user space app Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 14:50 ` [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information James Morris
2004-08-27 15:26   ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 16:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-27 16:37   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-27 16:41     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-27 17:01   ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-27 17:08     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-08-28 19:45   ` [BENCHMARK] " Roger Luethi
2004-08-28 19:56     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 20:14       ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 16:05         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:02           ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 17:20             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 17:52               ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 18:16                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 19:00                   ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 20:17                     ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-29 20:46                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 21:45                         ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-29 22:11                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 21:41                       ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 23:31                         ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-30  7:16                           ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-30 10:31                       ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-30 10:53                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-30 12:23                           ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-30 12:28                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-30 13:43                               ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-29 19:07               ` Paul Jackson
2004-08-29 19:17                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 19:49                   ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-29 20:25                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-31 10:16                       ` Roger Luethi
2004-08-31 15:34             ` [BENCHMARK] nproc: Look Ma, No get_tgid_list! Roger Luethi
2004-08-31 19:38               ` William Lee Irwin III

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