Re: RFC/PATCH: Random pid generation (2nd try) - sorry

From: Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 08:35:35 EST


On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ph. Marek wrote:

> can somebody please explain why the stock kernel is *slower* than the
> modified with a multiplication inside??

When the pid space gets fragmented, the kernel often has to do a lot of
work to find the next free pid. Until you have wrapped next_pid, that's
not an issue, though.

Matthew.

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