Herbert wrote:
> looks good to me, except for the potential issue with
> the double indirection introducing too much overhear
It's not the indirection count that I worry about.
It's the scalability of the locking. We must avoid as
much as possible adding any global locks on key code paths.
This means:
1) be reluctant to add them to fork/exit
2) just RCU locks on per-job (or finer grain) data when on
the normal page allocation path
3) nothing outside the current task context for the normal
task scheduling code path.
A global lock on the wrong code path is fatal for scaling
big NUMA boxes.
... now whether or not that is an issue here, I don't claim
to know. I'm just worried that it could be.
Atomic data, such as global counters, is just as bad.
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