GitHub-Mirror/linux-bl808
2
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/Fishwaldo/linux-bl808.git synced 2025-06-17 20:25:19 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

[PATCH] Optimize sys_times for a single thread process

Browse source 
Avoid taking the tasklist_lock in sys_times if the process is single
threaded.  In a NUMA system taking the tasklist_lock may cause a bouncing
cacheline if multiple independent processes continually call sys_times to
measure their performance.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Lameter 2005-06-23 00:10:05 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b030a4dd60
commit 71a2224d7d
2 changed files with 64 additions and 25 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

5
kernel/exit.c
View file

@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ repeat:
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&p->ptrace_list) || !list_empty(&p->ptrace_children));
__exit_signal(p);
__exit_sighand(p);
/*
* Note that the fastpath in sys_times depends on __exit_signal having
* updated the counters before a task is removed from the tasklist of
* the process by __unhash_process.
*/
__unhash_process(p);
/*