Re: [PATCH] (4/5) improved notifier callback mechanism - read copy update

John Levon (levon@movementarian.org)
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:08:20 +0000


On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:37:10AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Thanks, will look into it in more detail. Perhaps figuring out how to do
> oprofile without sleeping would be best.

You can try, but I don't think you'll get far ... maintaining the
necessary "no samples present for exited process" invariant is difficult
without sleeping.

It would seem better just to force the profiling hooks to use a
different API

regards
john

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