Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:33:12 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:23570 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:33:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:37:57 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@duckman.distro.conectiva To: Cort Dougan Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Andries Brouwer , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK In-Reply-To: <20020918090104.E14918@host110.fsmlabs.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 716 Lines: 20 On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Cort Dougan wrote: > Can we get a lockless, scalable, fault-tolerant, pre-emption safe, > zero-copy and distributed get_pid() that meets the Carrier Grade > specification? If at all possible I need it to do garbage collection, too. Anything better than a get_pid() that triggers the NMI oopser when wli runs tiobench with 1024 threads ;) Rik -- Spamtrap of the month: september@surriel.com http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/