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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:11:57 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       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 Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:05:17AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> 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.

In that case, sorry for complaining about that part - I was
looking at 2.5.33. But now that I look at patch-2.5.35
I don't see any improvement: for_each_task() is now called
for_each_process(), but otherwise base.c is just as quadratic
as it was.

So, why do you think this problem has been fixed?

Andries
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