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Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process()
	elimination, 2.5.35-BK
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:15, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Give me one reason for why these two added lines aren't better than all
> the complexity we've discussed? I can pretty much _guarantee_ that it's
> faster, and it sure as hell is simpler

Add a constraint against a hard maximum (tweakable in proc) and I'd
agree.


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