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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ps command race fix
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:34:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060813103434.17804d52.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1mza8wqdc.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:29:51 -0600
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> So for systems that are going to be using a larger number of pid
> values I think we need a better data structure, and containers are
> likely to push us in that area.  Which means either an extensible
> hash table or radix tree look like the sane choices.

radix-trees are nice because you can efficiently traverse them in-order
while the contents are changing (albeit potentially missing newly-added
things, but that's inevitable).

radix-trees are not-nice because they allocate memory at insertion time. 
If that's a problem then rbtrees could perhaps be used.

idr-trees have similar characteristics to the radix-trees, except a) the
idr-tree find-next-above feature could perhaps be used for the core pid
allocation and b) idr-trees don't presently have suitable search functions
for performing the iteration.

At least we have plenty of choices ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-13 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14 11:39 [RFC] ps command race fix KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  1:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  1:48   ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-25  2:00     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  2:08     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  2:33       ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  2:50         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  3:16           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-13 16:29             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-13 17:34               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-13 19:00                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-13 19:12                   ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-16  1:23                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-17  4:59                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-17  6:32                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-17 13:39                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-17 18:16                             ` Jean Delvare
2006-08-18  0:21                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-18  3:53                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-13 20:08               ` Albert Cahalan
2006-08-16  2:20                 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-25  7:22         ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-25  1:53   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  2:06     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  2:34       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  6:09   ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-25  6:47 Albert Cahalan

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