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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:51:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reply-To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process()
 elimination, 2.5.35-BK
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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.

yes, i'm in the process of doing this. I havent cleaned up idtag.c (and
its impact) yet, i started with pid.c. Once cleaned up it should have the
same hashing overhead as the existing pidhash.

	Ingo

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