Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process()

[Ingo Molnar]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> If you really really want to do this, then at least get it integrated
> better (ie it should _replace_ pidhash since it appears to just
> duplicate the functionality), and get the locking right. Maybe that will
> make it look better.

yes, i'm in the process of doing this. I havent cleaned up idtag.c (and
its impact) yet, i started with pid.c. Once cleaned up it should have the
same hashing overhead as the existing pidhash.

	Ingo