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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid()
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    On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 17:02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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    > 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.
    The original issue that I had with all of this is the fact that if the
    current algorithm can't find an available pid, it just sits there
    churning forever and hangs the machine. My original patch was really
    just a very basic fix for that (see the 2.4 tree). This makes it far
    more unlikely for us to max out, but if we do aren't we just going to
    have the same trouble all over?

    Thanks,
    Paul Larson

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