struct thread allocation

Sat May 17 02:23:35 PDT 2008

Nicolas Thery wrote:
Hello,

Instances of struct thread are allocated using a custom object caching
mechanism (per-cpu list of free structures (gd_tdffreeq) backed up by
zone).
Why doing so instead of using the objcache or kmalloc?  Was the lwkt
s/system implemented before objcache?
yes, it predates the objcache.

cheers
  simon
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