Dean Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd typed up some questions for you about the new patch I need to create > which I'd just sent to you, so I won't repeat them here. > > Before proceeding to far with your above changes, you might wait to see > the proposal that Robin Holt is putting together for a kthread pool. > I'm not sure how spawning a thread (which involves allocation of the > task_struct amongst other things, plus scheduling) can beat a wake_up() > of an already existing thread for cost time-wise.
A reasonable point, although if you don't happen to sleep in the allocations I suspect time wise it's pretty much a wash. I have some other reasons I might need the capability of clone a thread from a non-parent process, and it has the potential to simplify some things in the kthread case so I'm going to finish investigating, since I believe I have figured out a path to that target. Eric - 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/
