linux-kernel - Re: Task watchers v2

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20061218214159.2d571bf5.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:41:59 -0800
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
Cc:	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jes@....com, hch@....de,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, sgrubb@...hat.com, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	pj@....com, systemtap@...rces.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Task watchers v2

Matt wrote:
> - Task watchers can actually improve kernel performance slightly (up to
> 2% in extremely fork-heavy workloads for instance).

Nice.

Could you explain why?

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@....com> 1.925.600.0401
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/