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The Linus' explanation is here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1930358/focus=193...

"Just to make sure, I did a system-wide profile (so that you can actually see the overhead of context switching better), and that didn't change the picture."

"The real problems seem to be in dbus memory management (suggestion: keep a small per-thread cache of those message allocations) and to a smaller degree in the crazy utf8 validation (why the f*ck does it do that anyway?), with some locking problems thrown in for good measure. "



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