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

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri Apr 06 2007 - 14:58:33 EST


Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
>> Sure. It would be nice to move ->children into signal_struct at first.
>> Except this change breaks (in fact fixes) ->pdeath_signal behaviour.
>
> Ohhh, the "signal" struct! Funny name for something that nowadays has
> probably no more than a 5% affinity with signal-related tasks :/

Hmm. I wonder if we should just rename it the struct thread_group,
or struct task_group. Those seem slightly more accurate names.

I remember last time the conversation about renaming it came up no
one had a good name for it that wasn't already taken.

Eric
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