linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: use hash table to simulate the sparse array

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Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:29:51 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: use hash table to simulate the sparse array

Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I'm confused.
> When you map a new pid, you do the following:
> 
> +static void do_map_cmdline_index(unsigned int idx, unsigned int pid)
> +{
> +	unsigned int hash = hash_32(pid, SAVED_CMDLINES_SHIFT);
> +
> +	if (map_cmdline_to_pid(idx) != NO_CMDLINE_MAP)
> +		hlist_del(&indexes[idx].node);
> +	indexes[idx].pid = pid;
> +	hlist_add_head(&indexes[idx].node, &map_head[hash]);
> +}
> 
> Then if there was a pid that had the same hash, it is deleted
> from the hashlist and the new one steal his place, which
> lead me to think you won't have more than one entry per hash.
> 
> 

indexes[idx] is deleted, not "indexes[hash]".
idx is chosen by the FIFO algorithm(which I did not change).
It is the earliest mapped item, its place is replaced by new item.

So map_head[hash] may have 2 or more entries(with different idx).

The whole patch do one thing only:
implement map_pid_to_cmdline(pid), and make it equals to
original map_pid_to_cmdline[pid] always.





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