linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] pid: Remove pidhash

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Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:47:16 -0700
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Gargi Sharma <gs051095@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, riel@...riel.com,
        julia.lawall@...6.fr, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        pasha.tatashin@...cle.com, ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, oleg@...hat.com,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, hch@...radead.org, lkp@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] pid: Remove pidhash

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 06:19:39PM -0400, Gargi Sharma wrote:
> pidhash is no longer required as all the information
> can be looked up from idr tree. nr_hashed represented
> the number of pids that had been hashed. Since, nr_hashed and
> PIDNS_HASH_ADDING are no longer relevant, it has been renamed
> to pid_allocated and PIDNS_ADDING respectively.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gargi Sharma <gs051095@...il.com>

Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com> #ia64