Re: [PATCH 2/6] signal: retarget_shared_pending: considershared/unblocked signals only

[Matt Fleming]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:20:45 +0200
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> exit_signals() checks signal_pending() before
> retarget_shared_pending() but this is suboptimal. We can avoid the
> while_each_thread() loop in case when there are no shared signals
> visible to us.
> 
> Add the has_pending_signals(shared_pending, blocked) check. We don
> not use tsk->blocked directly but pass this sigset_t as an argument,
> this is needed for the next patch.
> 
> Note: we can optimize this more. while_each_thread(t) can check
> t->blocked into account and stop after every pending signal has the
> new target.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nice. Do you have plans to implement that further optimisation?

Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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