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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:46:02 +0100
From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, rajancr@us.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: Fwd: [Lse-tech] get_pid() performance fix
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:07:38PM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> On Thursday 07 March 2002 09:54 am, Guest section DW wrote:
> > 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.)

> I don't think that will solve the N^2 problem

Do you understand "inefficiency"? And "remove"?
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