Subject: Re: more on exit performance
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-perform
Date: 11/06/2003 10:27:48
> My current plan is to count the number of children in SSTOP/SZOMB
> and to requeue them to the top of the p_children list.
> find_stopped_child() can then be optimised the case when there are 
> no such children.

Patch at http://www.btinternet.com/~david.laight/netbsd/stopchild.diff
it's about 18k, mainly due to fixing some related MP locking issues.

It should apply to current (as now!), anyone able to test the
benchmark?  I've only tested the kernel on a very slow system....

	David

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