From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266157AbUHVFBT (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:01:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266181AbUHVFBT (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:01:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43153 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266157AbUHVFBR (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:01:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:00:44 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Nick Piggin Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] use hlist for pid hash Message-Id: <20040821220044.6974387d.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4128252E.1080002@yahoo.com.au> References: <412824BE.4040801@yahoo.com.au> <4128252E.1080002@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:46:38 +1000 Nick Piggin wrote: > Any reason why this shouldn't be done? Anyone know of a decent test that > stresses the pid hash? I can't think of any way in which this could decrease performance. I highly recommend this patch :-)