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Gargi Sharma 95846ecf9d pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API
Patch series "Replacing PID bitmap implementation with IDR API", v4.

This series replaces kernel bitmap implementation of PID allocation with
IDR API.  These patches are written to simplify the kernel by replacing
custom code with calls to generic code.

The following are the stats for pid and pid_namespace object files
before and after the replacement.  There is a noteworthy change between
the IDR and bitmap implementation.

Before
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   8447       3894         64      12405       3075    kernel/pid.o
After
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   3397        304          0       3701        e75    kernel/pid.o

Before
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   5692       1842        192       7726       1e2e    kernel/pid_namespace.o
After
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   2854        216         16       3086        c0e    kernel/pid_namespace.o

The following are the stats for ps, pstree and calling readdir on /proc
for 10,000 processes.

ps:
        With IDR API    With bitmap
real    0m1.479s        0m2.319s
user    0m0.070s        0m0.060s
sys     0m0.289s        0m0.516s

pstree:
        With IDR API    With bitmap
real    0m1.024s        0m1.794s
user    0m0.348s        0m0.612s
sys     0m0.184s        0m0.264s

proc:
        With IDR API    With bitmap
real    0m0.059s        0m0.074s
user    0m0.000s        0m0.004s
sys     0m0.016s        0m0.016s

This patch (of 2):

Replace the current bitmap implementation for Process ID allocation.
Functions that are no longer required, for example, free_pidmap(),
alloc_pidmap(), etc.  are removed.  The rest of the functions are
modified to use the IDR API.  The change was made to make the PID
allocation less complex by replacing custom code with calls to generic
API.

[gs051095@gmail.com: v6]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507760379-21662-2-git-send-email-gs051095@gmail.com
[avagin@openvz.org: restore the old behaviour of the ns_last_pid sysctl]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171106183144.16368-1-avagin@openvz.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507583624-22146-2-git-send-email-gs051095@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gargi Sharma <gs051095@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
Documentation Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: fix typo 2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
arch pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API 2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
block block/blk-mq.c: use kmalloc_array_node() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -08:00
drivers drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: fix error handling in 'rio_dma_transfer()' 2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API 2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
include pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API 2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
init pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API 2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API 2017-11-17 16:10:03 -08:00
lib lib: test module for find_*_bit() functions 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
mm mm, compaction: remove unneeded pageblock_skip_persistent() checks 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
net Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-15 19:42:40 -08:00
samples media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
scripts checkpatch: do not check missing blank line before builtin_*_driver 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
security Modules updates for v4.15 2017-11-15 13:46:33 -08:00
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
tools tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c: clean up clang build warning 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt First batch of KVM changes for 4.15 2017-11-16 13:00:24 -08:00
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.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
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Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS libnvdimm for 4.15 2017-11-17 09:51:57 -08:00
Makefile RISC-V Port for Linux 4.15 v9 2017-11-15 10:49:15 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.