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    [PATCH] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-B4 · d79c07a4
    Ingo Molnar authored
    the attached patch updates a number of items:
    
     - adds cleanups suggested by Christoph Hellwig: needed unlikely()
       statements, a superfluous #define and line length problems.
    
     - splits up the global ptrace list into per-task ptrace lists. This was
       pretty straightforward, and this makes the worst-case exit() latency
       O(nr_children).
    
    the per-task ptrace lists unearthed a bug that the previous code did not
    take care of: tasks on the ptrace list have to be correctly reparented as
    well. This patch passed my stresstests as well.
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