Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:37:08 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid() |
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Hubertus Franke wrote: > > > > That is true. All was done under the 16-bit assumption > > My hunch is that the current algorithm might actually work quite well > > for a sparsely populated pid-space (32-bits). > > I agree. > > So let's just try Andries approach, suggested patch as follows..
Hmmm, I wonder how badly the system will behave when we need to reset last_pid and next_safe with 30000 pids in use ...
regards,
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