Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.5 fix/improve get_pid()

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:37:08 -0300 (BRT)


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> >
> > That is true. All was done under the 16-bit assumption
> > My hunch is that the current algorithm might actually work quite well
> > for a sparsely populated pid-space (32-bits).
>
> I agree.
>
> So let's just try Andries approach, suggested patch as follows..

Hmmm, I wonder how badly the system will behave when
we need to reset last_pid and next_safe with 30000
pids in use ...

regards,

Rik

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