Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:33:44 -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, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Eliminating for_each_task loops (the ones completely unrelated to > the get_pid() issue) is an improvement even for desktop setups, which have > at most 1000 processes running.
If you really really want to do this, then at least get it integrated better (ie it should _replace_ pidhash since it appears to just duplicate the functionality), and get the locking right. Maybe that will make it look better.
Linus
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