Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:31:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:31:41 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:45189 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:31:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020917.182722.122084128.davem@redhat.com> To: wli@holomorphy.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20020918002240.GB2179@holomorphy.com> References: <20020918002240.GB2179@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 14 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:22:40 -0700 The issues addressed here are extremely important for the workloads I must support. Have you published test tools that emulate your workload? These would be very useful, probably to find problems even outside the scope of pid lookups. - 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/