> So I think we have some options once we get the kernel threads out > of the way. Getting the kernel threads out of the way would seem > to be the first priority.
I think both avenues would probably be the right way to proceeed. Getting kthreads to not be parented by init would be an opportunity for optimization. I think organizing the zombie tasks to be easily reaped also has merit. Rapidly forking/exiting processes like udevd during the boot of a different machine were also shown to benefit significantly from this patch. That machine had 512 cpus and 4608 disk devices, we dropped the device discovery under udevd by 30%. This, honestly, surprised us. It makes some sense now that I think about it. This would be a case where improving the zombie handling would be beneficial to more than just kthreads. Thanks, Robin - 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/
