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

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Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:59:01 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@...ricas.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.


* Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> One per PC card socket to avoid the sysfs locking crappyness that 
> would otherwise deadlock, and to convert from the old unreadable state 
> machine implementation to a much more readable linearly coded 
> implementation.
> 
> Could probably be eliminated if we had some mechanism to spawn a 
> helper thread to do some task as required which didn't block other 
> helper threads until it completes.

looks like the perfect usecase for threadlets. (threadlets only use up a 
separate context if necessary and can be coded in the familiar 
sequential/linear model)

(btw., threadlets could in theory be executed in irq context too, and if 
we block on anything it gets bounced off to a real context - although 
this certainly pushes the limits and there would still be some deadlock 
potential for things like irq-unsafe non-sleeping locks (spinlocks, 
rwlocks).)

	Ingo
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