* Gregory Haskins <ghask...@novell.com> wrote:
> Can I ask a simple question in light of all this discussion?
>
> "Is get_task_struct() really that bad?"
it dirties a cacheline and it also involves atomics.
Also, it's a small design cleanliness issue to me: get_task_struct()
impacts the lifetime of an object - and if a locking primitive has
side-effects on object lifetimes that's never nice.
Ingo
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