Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

[Russell King]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:30:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> : root       319  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    18:51   0:00 [pccardd]
> 
> hm.

One per PC card socket to avoid the sysfs locking crappyness that would
otherwise deadlock, and to convert from the old unreadable state machine
implementation to a much more readable linearly coded implementation.

Could probably be eliminated if we had some mechanism to spawn a helper
thread to do some task as required which didn't block other helper
threads until it completes.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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