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SubjectRe: Post-halloween doc updates.
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Hi Dave,
hi lkml,

On Thursday 30 October 2003 15:15, Dave Jones wrote:
> Threading improvements.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - Ingo Molnar put a lot of work into threading improvements for 2.6.
> Some of the features of this work are:
> - Generic pid allocator (arbitrary number of PIDs with no slowdown,
> unified pidhash).
> - Thread Local Storage syscalls
> - sys_clone() enhancements (CLONE_SETTLS, CLONE_PARENT_SETTID,
> CLONE_SETTID, CLONE_CLEARTID, CLONE_DETACHED)
> - POSIX thread signals stuff (atomic signals, shared signals, etc.)
> - Per-CPU GDT
> - Threaded coredumping support
> - sys_exit() speedups (O(1) exit)
> - Generic, improved futexes, vcache

vcache is gone. futex pages are swappable now and not pinned anymore.

Good work. I love this document ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser


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