Re: [patch] procfs/procps threading performance speedup, 2.5.62

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:55:07 -0800


Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Note that the recent /proc/*/wchan addition was botched.
> Caching is prevented due to race conditions. This could
> be fixed by changing the file format to contain:
> number, function name

There is not enough detail here for it to be fixed.

What are the race conditions?

What is "number"?

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