Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:53:43 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK |
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>> Nobody's trying to screw the desktop users, we're being mind- bogglingly >> careful not to, in fact. If you have specific objections to a particular >> patch, raise them as technical arguments. Saying "we shouldn't do that >> because I'm not interested in it" is far less useful. > > i fully agree with your points, but it does not hold in this specific > case. 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.
Right - which is exactly why I was saying we should stick to technical debates rather than whether some people were interested in a particular market segment or not ;-)
M.
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