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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:22:00 -0800
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] pids: Make it possible to clone tasks with given
pids
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:18:19PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > To add a bit, it's also one of the more *serialized* path. Doing it in
> > parallel might actually hurt,
>
> Can you elaborate on this, please?
It goes through a lot of locks - tasklist_lock, mmlist_lock, other
subsys locks depending on CLONE_* options. If you try to do that on
multiple CPUs in parallel, depending on the level of concurrency,
contention and extra cacheline bounces may dominate the overhead.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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