linux-kernel - Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

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Message-ID: <m1wt0p5o1y.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:56:57 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@...ricas.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> writes:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
>> Sure. It would be nice to move ->children into signal_struct at first.
>> Except this change breaks (in fact fixes) ->pdeath_signal behaviour.
>
> Ohhh, the "signal" struct! Funny name for something that nowadays has 
> probably no more than a 5% affinity with signal-related tasks :/

Hmm.  I wonder if we should just rename it the struct thread_group,
or struct task_group.  Those seem slightly more accurate names.

I remember last time the conversation about renaming it came up no
one had a good name for it that wasn't already taken.

Eric
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