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

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Message-ID: <461A816F.4050507@tmr.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:09:51 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	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.

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>>>> 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...
>> I don't really see the point. It's not even *true*. A "process" 
>> includes more than the shared signal-handling - it would include files 
>> and fs etc too.
>>
>> So it's actually *more* correct to call it the shared signal state 
>> than it would be to call it "process" state.
> 
> we could call it "structure for everything that we know to be ugly about 
> POSIX process semantics" ;-) The rest, like files and fs we've 
> abstracted out already.
> 
> 	Ingo
So are you voting for ugly_struct? ;-)

I do think this is still waiting for a more descriptive name, like 
proc_misc_struct or some such. Kernel code should be treated as 
literature, intended to be both read and readable.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
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