Re: Fwd: [Lse-tech] get_pid() performance fix

[Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>]

On Tuesday 05 March 2002 11:26 am, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> > @@ -153,13 +155,18 @@
> >                               if(last_pid & 0xffff8000)
> >                                     last_pid = 300;
> >                               next_safe = PID_MAX;
> > +                             goto repeat;
> >                         }
> > -                       goto repeat;
> > +                       if(unlikely(last_pid == beginpid))
> > +                             goto nomorepids;
> > +                       continue;
>
> It isn't guaranteed that pid is unique.
>
> In the case:
> 	task->pid = 300, task->xxx = 301
> 	pid 301 is free
>
> 	This get_pid() returns 301.
>
> Regards.

No the point of this patch was to limit the search time for finding
the next available pid. We are not mocking around with the 
logic that declares a pid available or not. That stays the same.
However, one doesn't need to start every single time from the
beginning to find the next available pid.

-- 
-- Hubertus Franke  (frankeh@watson.ibm.com)