Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:53:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK |
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On second thought ... yes there's a reason. Suppose you have > 100000 threads on your box already, how long is it going to > take to walk them all to figure out the pid distribution ? > > And are you willing to walk 100000 threads for every 16 pids allocated ?
Give me a real-life case where that happens, and I might care. I dare you.
The pid space is not a uniform distribution, which your made-up-example depends on. So you usually walk the 100000 threads _once_, and then you don't have to walk them again for quite a long time.
And guys, if this is a performance problem for some extreme site, the fix is truly trivial:
echo $((0x7fffffff)) > /proc/sys/max_pid
and you're done.
You're completely making up a problem that is not a problem in real life. Come back to me when the above doesn't work _in_practice_ and somebody is actually bitten, and maybe I'll care.
Until then, all you're doing is mental masturbation.
Linus
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