linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] do_wait: make PIDTYPE

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Message-ID: <20210310172752.GA8973@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:27:53 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Jim Newsome <jnewsome@...project.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] do_wait: make PIDTYPE_PID case O(1) instead of O(n)

On 03/09, Jim Newsome wrote:
>
> do_wait is an internal function used to implement waitpid, waitid,
> wait4, etc. To handle the general case, it does an O(n) linear scan of
> the thread group's children and tracees.
>
> This patch adds a special-case when waiting on a pid to skip these scans
> and instead do an O(1) lookup. This improves performance when waiting on
> a pid from a thread group with many children and/or tracees.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Newsome <jnewsome@...project.org>

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>