From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263373AbTJaPyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:54:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263375AbTJaPyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:54:23 -0500 Received: from smtprelay02.ispgateway.de ([62.67.200.157]:24240 "EHLO smtprelay02.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263373AbTJaPyR (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:54:17 -0500 From: Ingo Oeser To: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Post-halloween doc updates. Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:53:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031030141519.GA10700@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031030141519.GA10700@redhat.com> Cc: Linux Kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310311653.45562.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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