Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:48:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:48:24 -0500 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:1796 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:48:12 -0500 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:49:26 -0800 (PST) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: David Mosberger cc: "David S. Miller" , , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Subject: Re: thread_info implementation In-Reply-To: <15464.32354.452126.182563@napali.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: 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 On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:22:08 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" said: > > DavidM> I implemented the thread_info stuff, and I checked out the > DavidM> performance, have you? > > So why don't you share the results? Perhaps then I can see the light, > too. With the exception of task coloring, the thread_info is strictly > more work and it's possible to do task coloring without thread_info. This one does task colouring and stack pointer jittering for x86 : http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/misc.html#TskStackCol Also i think Manfred Spraul has something that does task colouring. It has been tested by a guy in fujitsu ( Japan ) on 8 way machines by giving pretty good results. The stack jittering part seemed not to give too much improvements though ... - Davide - 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/