On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:59 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Space saving was the only reason for nsproxy to exist. > > Now of course it also provides the teensiest reduction in # instructions > since every clone results in just one reference count inc for the > nsproxy rather than one for each namespace.
If we have 7 or 8 namespaces, then it can save us a significant number of atomic instructions on _each_ of the refcounts, plus touching all of the cachelines, etc... -- Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
