>
> Can somebody post why this patch shouldn't be picked up ?
> The attached program shows the problem in user space
> and the patch is almost trivial ..
At a cursory glance, this seems to be three patches:
1) Fix the get_pid() hang.
2) Speed up get_pid().
3) And this piece I'm not sure about:
> + if(p->tgid > last_pid && next_safe > p->tgid)
> + next_safe = p->tgid;
Please split, and send the fix get_pid() hang to trivial patch monkey,
and push optimization to Linus.
Cheers!
Rusty.
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