Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 16:55:07 EST


Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Note that the recent /proc/*/wchan addition was botched.
> Caching is prevented due to race conditions. This could
> be fixed by changing the file format to contain:
> number, function name

There is not enough detail here for it to be fixed.

What are the race conditions?

What is "number"?

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Feb 23 2003 - 22:00:36 EST