From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:02:10 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209221157030.19753-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020922003448.GU1345@dualathlon.random>
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Nevertheless the current get_pid is very bad when the tasklist grows and
> the pid space is reduced, [...]
> It may not be the best for a 1million pid case, but certainly it is a
> must have for 2.4 and I think it could be ok for 2.5 too. It is been
> submitted for 2.5 a number of times, I quote below the 2.4 version just
> so you know what I'm talking about exactly [...]
Andrea, the new PID allocator (and new pidhash) went into 2.5.37, there's
no get_pid() anymore. Do we agree that the runtime-bitmap hack^H^H^H^patch
is now moot for 2.5?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-22 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-17 23:06 [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 0:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 1:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-18 2:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 10:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 14:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 12:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 12:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 16:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 16:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 18:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 19:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 20:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 20:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 21:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-19 3:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-19 13:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-21 12:56 ` quadratic behaviour Andries Brouwer
2002-09-21 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-21 17:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-21 17:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-21 17:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 14:49 ` [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 15:01 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 15:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 15:31 ` yodaiken
2002-09-18 15:35 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 15:37 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 15:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-18 18:31 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-18 18:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 16:32 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 21:46 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-09-18 16:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 16:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 17:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-18 18:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-19 19:27 ` Martin Mares
2002-09-17 15:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-19 20:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-18 16:46 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 17:35 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 17:43 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-18 17:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-18 17:57 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 18:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-18 18:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-18 18:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:56 ` interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() and signals Imran Badr
2002-09-19 7:16 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-18 19:53 ` [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-22 0:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-22 10:02 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2002-09-22 15:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-18 18:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:58 ` Cort Dougan
2002-09-18 18:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 17:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-18 17:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:00 ` yodaiken
2002-09-18 18:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-18 18:33 ` yodaiken
2002-09-18 16:55 ` Alan Cox
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