On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:43:10PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
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> On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:21 AM, David Laight wrote:
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> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:42:44PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
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> >> what is the purpose of this change?
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> To coalesce the number of allocations needed for lwp creation.
I'd have thought that allocating memory blocks was a minimal part
of the cost of lwp creations. Under normal conditions it is just
the removal of an item from a single linked (per cpu) list.
(Unless the item is larger than a page - and we have to allocate it
from the kernel map directly.)
David
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