Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: Post-halloween doc updates. | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:53:45 +0100 |
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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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