On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 15:51 -0700, Peter W. Morreale wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:33 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Gregory Haskins wrote:
> >
> > > Can I ask a simple question in light of all this discussion?
> > >
> > > "Is get_task_s
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:33 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Gregory Haskins wrote:
>
> > Can I ask a simple question in light of all this discussion?
> >
> > "Is get_task_struct() really that bad?"
>
> it dirties a cacheline and it also involves atomics.
>
> Also, it's a small design cleanliness
