Re: [PATCH 7/7] uts namespaces: Implement CLONE_NEWUTS flag

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri May 05 2006 - 10:32:20 EST


"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Ok. Then I maintain that the bitmap of changed namespaces seems
> unnecessary.

I didn't spell it out, but it's obviously to optimize cache footprint
of clone(). I expect nsproxy to be eventually more than a cacheline
and with a bitmap test you can avoid checking it all.

-Andi
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