Re: Post-halloween doc updates.

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi Dave,
hi lkml,

On Thursday 30 October 2003 15:15, Dave Jones wrote:
> Threading improvements.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - Ingo Molnar put a lot of work into threading improvements for 2.6.
>   Some of the features of this work are:
>   -  Generic pid allocator (arbitrary number of PIDs with no slowdown,
>      unified pidhash).
>   -  Thread Local Storage syscalls
>   -  sys_clone() enhancements (CLONE_SETTLS, CLONE_PARENT_SETTID,
> CLONE_SETTID, CLONE_CLEARTID, CLONE_DETACHED)
>   -  POSIX thread signals stuff (atomic signals, shared signals, etc.)
>   -  Per-CPU GDT
>   -  Threaded coredumping support
>   -  sys_exit() speedups (O(1) exit)
>   -  Generic, improved futexes, vcache

vcache is gone. futex pages are swappable now and not pinned anymore.

Good work. I love this document ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser


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