Re: [RFC] - Some notions that I would like comments on

Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:34:54 -0300


> No, VM tricks can be very expensive (especially with threaded programs
> on SMP, where every VM update has to involve a cross-CPU interrupt to
> invalidate TLB caches on other CPUs).

Are there any references floating around about interprocessor communication
and its costs?

> > A pseudo-filesystem for exposing internal process state
> Ooh, like /proc fs?

Should my sarcasm detector be firing here :-) /proc contains stuff that the
kernel maintains. I was referring to very application-specific stuff like
what function gcc is currently compiling or make's dependency tree and where
it is in updating it.

Jeff

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