Fast sigblock (AKA rtld speedup)

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Wed Jan 9 15:52:22 UTC 2013


On 1/9/13 2:38 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:02:22AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> I think it would be great if it works, I just haven't had time to fully
>> understand your more recent patch.  If you feel it's safe and maybe do a
>> few test programs to see what happens, that would be best.
> I revived the test programs I used during the development of the patch, see
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/fast_sigblock.c
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/fast_sigblock2.c
>
> Also, I adapted the code to the specific case you asked about, in
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/fast_sigblock3.c
> When run from the shell, it reports 'Killed'.
This looks very good, thank you for addressing my concerns.

I think you should go forward with it then.

-Alfred


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