Re: [RFC git tree] Userspace RCU (urcu) for Linux (repost)

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 12:34:42 EST


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:19:45PM +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 14:16, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:53:52PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >> Yes, I guess the signal is not so bad.
> >
> > Now if there were a /proc entry that listed out the tids of the
> > currently running threads, then it might be possible to do something,
> > especially for applications with many more threads than CPUs.
>
> Do you mean something like: `ls /proc/$pid/tasks/*`? Or is this not
> atomic enough?

Won't that give me all the threads rather than only the ones currently
running?

Thanx, Paul
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