Re: pthread_create() slow for many threads; also time to revisit 64b context switch optimization?

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From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 11:04 am

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Linus Torvalds wrote:

Of course I care.  All I try to do is to prevent going from one extreme
(all focus on P4s) to the other (ignore P4s completely).

Even ignoring this one case here, I think it's in any case useful for
userlevel to tell the kernel that an anonymous memory region is needed
for a stack.  This might allow better optimizations and/or security
implementations.

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Re: pthread_create() slow for many threads; also time to r ..., Ulrich Drepper, (Wed Aug 13, 11:04 am)
Re: pthread_create() slow for many threads; also time to r ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Aug 13, 11:16 am)