Re: [Fwd: [-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v9)]

[Paul Menage]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Let's suppose the process with a lot of threads does exit_group() and nobody
>  else uses this ->mm. How many time we will re-assign mm->owner and iterate
>  over the all threads in system ?
>

In general we won't get to the third loop, since one of the first two
loops (children or siblings) will find another mm user.

Paul
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