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Re: Slow pthread_create() under high load
- To: drepper at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Slow pthread_create() under high load
- From: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk dot ukuu dot org dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 02:56:09 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net (Kaz Kylheku), dpw at doc dot ic dot ac dot uk (David Wragg), glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu, linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
> I would love to do this but for this the extremely simple patch to
> implement delayed clone creation must be applied. It must be possible
> to create threads which are stopped. The patch I sent consisted of
> two changed line of code but Linus did not even care to comment.
You mean create a thread which starts by doing a pause syscall in a loop
until you poke it ? Why does that need kernel help