On 6/7/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this needs tasklist_lock?
>
rcu_read_lock() should be fine. From Eric's patch at
2.6.17-mm2 - proc-remove-tasklist_lock-from-proc_pid_readdir.patch
The patch mentions that "We don't need the tasklist_lock to safely
iterate through processes anymore."
Containers V10 includes an iterator interface for listing the member
tasks of a container, which avoids scanning the entire tasklist.
Downside is that it currently requires taking a read_lock on a global
lock, but I hope to improve on that in the future.
Paul
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