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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jes@sgi.com,
	lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, sekharan@us.ibm.com,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu, jtk@us.ibm.com, balbir@in.ibm.com,
	nagar@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Task watchers:  Introduction
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:24:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060619032453.2c19e32c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150242721.21787.138.camel@stark>

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:52:01 -0700
Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Task watchers is a notifier chain that sends notifications to registered
> callers whenever a task forks, execs, changes its [re][ug]id, or exits.

Seems a reasonable objective - it'll certainly curtail (indeed, reverse)
the ongoing proliferation of little subsystem-specific hooks all over the
core code, will allow us to remove some #includes from core code and should
permit some more things to be loaded as modules.

But I do wonder if it would have been better to have separate chains for
each of WATCH_TASK_INIT, WATCH_TASK_EXEC, WATCH_TASK_UID, WATCH_TASK_GID,
WATCH_TASK_EXIT.  That would reduce the number of elements which need to be
traversed at each event and would eliminate the need for demultiplexing at
each handler.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-19 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-13 23:52 [PATCH 00/11] Task watchers: Introduction Matt Helsley
2006-06-19 10:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-21  8:35   ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-21  9:07     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-21  9:13       ` [Lse-tech] " Matt Helsley
2006-06-21 10:40         ` Peter Williams
2006-06-21 21:32           ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-21  5:41 ` Peter Williams
2006-06-21  7:51   ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-21 11:34     ` Peter Williams
2006-06-21 11:41       ` Peter Williams
2006-06-21 21:29         ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-21 23:04           ` Peter Williams
2006-06-22  0:32             ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-22  1:11               ` Peter Williams
2006-06-22  3:46                 ` Matt Helsley
2006-06-22  4:26                   ` Peter Williams
2006-06-22  5:37                     ` [Lse-tech] " Matt Helsley
2006-06-22  6:29                       ` Peter Williams
2006-06-22 19:53                         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-06-22 22:46                           ` Peter Williams

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