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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:05:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reply-To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process()
 elimination, 2.5.35-BK
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> > It doesn't sound like you read the patch at all.
> 
> I looked at it and searched for base.c but didnt find it,
> so concluded that the real problem was not addressed.

because, as mentioned before, that particular loop i fixed in 2.5.35.

> > That is actually one of the easiest ways to take out one of my machines
> > while it's running 10K or so tasks, mentioned a bit ago in this thread.
> 
> OK. So we now agree.
> 
> But it looks like your patch doesnt change this? Or did I overlook sth?

yes, you did overlook a number of things.

	Ingo

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