Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:54:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pid_max hang again... |
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Andries Brouwer wrote: > > ... > Again. We have 2^30 = 10^9 pids. In reality there are fewer than 10^4 > processes. So once in 10^5 pid allocations do we make a scan over > these 10^4 processes,
Inside tasklist_lock? That's pretty bad from a latency point of view. A significant number of users would take the slower common case to avoid this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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