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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [patch-2.4.0-test7-pre7] do_fork() optimization.
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> I was thinking if I could get a few more cycles out of do_fork() (the
> recent SCO propaganda about their _lwp_create(2) being faster than our
> clone(2) made me think). And I noticed that get_pid() doesn't actually
> need the lastpid_lock because it is only ever called from do_fork() inside
> the lock_kernel(). So, here is the obvious patch.
Hmm.. I'd rather get rid of the _other_ spinlock, namely the kernel lock.
I don't actually see anything that requires or even _wants_ the kernel
lock anywhere. Can anybody tell me what I'm missing?
Linus
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