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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:07:45 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0
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Hi Ingo,

I'm just being anal and disagreeing with Ulrich over a technical
point, i.e. that the _only_ cost is a few syscalls, nothing
fundamental here :)

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If all this userspace cost can be dealt with by doing some simple
> things in kernel-space, why not do it?

Agreed - separate child/parent tid pointers is fine.

Btw, what do you think of the CLONE_CHILD_BLOCKSIGS flag idea?

-- Jamie
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