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

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Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:29:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	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.

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > Almost *anything* is better than "signal_struct" ;) A task_group could 
> > be fine, so something on the line of task_shared_ctx.
> 
> or lets just face it and name it what it is: process_struct ;-)

That'd be fine too! Wonder if Linus would swallow a rename patch like 
that...


- Davide


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