Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/3] introduce SYS_CLONE_MASK

Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-09T14:37:30Z

Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> writes:

> I would say this is more a benefit than a problem. With a couple of these
> systems we are testing, the number of kernel threads is far greater than
> the number of user processes and having pstree not normally show them, but
> maybe have an option we add later to show them again would be beneficial.

Sure.

Robin how many kernel thread per cpu are you seeing?

I don't know that we have a problem in this regard but it feels like
you are seeing a lot more kernel threads per cpu than I would expect
from looking at small systems.

I am wondering if somewhere we are using per cpu kernel threads when
we should not be...

Eric