From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266657AbUH0RIm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:08:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266687AbUH0RIm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:08:42 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:56223 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266657AbUH0RIk (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:08:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:08:39 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Albert Cahalan , Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [0/2][ANNOUNCE] nproc: netlink access to /proc information Message-ID: <20040827170839.GS2793@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Albert Cahalan , Paul Jackson References: <20040827122412.GA20052@k3.hellgate.ch> <20040827162308.GP2793@holomorphy.com> <20040827170143.GA31918@k3.hellgate.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040827170143.GA31918@k3.hellgate.ch> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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