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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Scale pidhash_shift/pidhash_size up based on num_possible_cpus().
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:59:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14p64zetj.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080801191336.GK10501@sgi.com> (Robin Holt's message of "Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:13:36 -0500")

Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> writes:

> Oops, confusing details.  That was a different problem we had been
> tracking.

Which leads back to the original question.  What were you measuring
that showed improvement with a larger pid hash size?

Almost by definition a larger hash table will perform better.  However
my intuition is that we are talking about something that should be in
the noise for most workloads.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31 17:00 [Patch] Scale pidhash_shift/pidhash_size up based on num_possible_cpus() Robin Holt
2008-07-31 18:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-31 19:32   ` Robin Holt
2008-07-31 19:49     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-31 20:08       ` Robin Holt
2008-07-31 22:04         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-01 12:04           ` Robin Holt
2008-08-01 18:27             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-01 19:13               ` Robin Holt
2008-08-01 19:59                 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2008-08-04 13:11                   ` Stephen Champion
2008-08-04 20:36                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-04 23:58                       ` Robin Holt
2008-08-05  0:38                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-08-06  3:21                           ` Stephen Champion
2008-08-01 18:49             ` Linus Torvalds

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