Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:55:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:55:18 -0500 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.5]:52724 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:55:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:54:49 +0100 From: Guest section DW To: Hubertus Franke Cc: Rusty Russell , rajancr@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Fwd: [Lse-tech] get_pid() performance fix Message-ID: <20020307145449.GA13062@win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020305145004.BFA503FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com> <20020307145630.7d4aed95.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20020307143404.A8FFF3FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020307143404.A8FFF3FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:35:09AM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote: ... Long ago I submitted a patch that changed the max pid from 15 bits to 24 or 30 bits or so. (And of course removed the inefficiency noticed by some people in the current thread.) Probably this is a good moment to try and see what Linus thinks about this today. [Of course Albert Cahalan will object that this is bad for the columns of ps output. Maybe Alan will mutter something about sysvipc. Roughly speaking there are only advantages, especially since I think we'll have to do this sooner or later, and in such cases sooner is better.] - 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/