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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > so ... is anyone pursuing this? This would allow us to make 
> > sys_wait4() faster and more scalable: no tasklist_lock bouncing for 
> > example.
> 
> which part?

all of it :) Everything you mentioned makes sense quite a bit. The 
thread signal handling of do_wait was added in a pretty arbitrary 
fashion so i doubt there are strong requirements in that area. Apps 
might have grown to get used to it meanwhile though, so we've got to do 
it carefully.

	Ingo
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