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From: Ryan Cumming <ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] use hlist for pid hash
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:25:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408212225.58536.ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4128252E.1080002@yahoo.com.au>

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On Saturday 21 August 2004 21:46, you wrote:
> This comes at the "expense" of
> 1. reintroducing the memory  prefetch into the hash traversal loop;
> 2. adding new pids to the head of the list instead of the tail. I
>    suspect that if this was a big problem then the hash isn't sized
>    well or could benefit from moving hot entries to the head.

It looks like the current code is already adding PIDs to the head: list_add() 
adds to the head of a list and list_add_tail() adds to the tail.

-Ryan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-22  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-22  4:44 [PATCH 1/2] fix PID hash sizing Nick Piggin
2004-08-22  4:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] use hlist for pid hash Nick Piggin
2004-08-22  5:00   ` David S. Miller
2004-08-22  5:31     ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-22  5:25   ` Ryan Cumming [this message]
2004-08-22  5:26     ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-06 11:35   ` [PATCH] Allocate correct amount of memory " Anton Blanchard
2004-09-06 11:41     ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-22 12:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] fix PID hash sizing William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-23  0:16   ` Nick Piggin

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