[PATCH] Avoid taking global tasklist_lock for single threadedprocess at getrusage()
authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:00:13 +0000 (03:00 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:38:09 +0000 (07:38 -0800)
Avoid taking the global tasklist_lock when possible, if a process is single
threaded during getrusage().  Any avoidance of tasklist_lock is good for
NUMA boxes (and possibly for large SMPs).  Thanks to Oleg Nesterov for
review and suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Nippun Goel <nippung@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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