linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] Scale pidhash_shift/pidhash_size up based on num_possible

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:08:35 -0500
From:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Scale pidhash_shift/pidhash_size up based on
	num_possible_cpus().

Like so???

I have not tested this yet.

---

Set the upper limit for the pidhash_shift based upon PID_MAX_LIMIT.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@....com>


Index: contention_unroll/kernel/pid.c
===================================================================
--- contention_unroll.orig/kernel/pid.c	2008-07-31 11:59:21.154284073 -0500
+++ contention_unroll/kernel/pid.c	2008-07-31 15:07:21.909158788 -0500
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ void __init pidhash_init(void)
 	unsigned long megabytes = nr_kernel_pages >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	pidhash_shift = max(4, fls(megabytes * 4));
-	pidhash_shift = min(12, pidhash_shift);
+	pidhash_shift = min(fls(PID_MAX_LIMIT) - 6, pidhash_shift);
 	pidhash_size = 1 << pidhash_shift;
 
 	printk("PID hash table entries: %d (order: %d, %Zd bytes)\n",
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