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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:35:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC git tree] Userspace RCU (urcu) for Linux (repost)
From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
       ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Robert Wisniewski <bob@watson.ibm.com>
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On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 18:34, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:19:45PM +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 14:16, Paul E. McKenney
>> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:53:52PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> >> Yes, I guess the signal is not so bad.
>> >
>> > Now if there were a /proc entry that listed out the tids of the
>> > currently running threads, then it might be possible to do something,
>> > especially for applications with many more threads than CPUs.
>>
>> Do you mean something like: `ls /proc/$pid/tasks/*`? Or is this not
>> atomic enough?
>
> Won't that give me all the threads rather than only the ones currently
> running?
What do you mean by 'running'?

Bert
>
>                                                        Thanx, Paul
>