[PATCH] use hlist for pid hash
Use hlists for the PID hashes. This halves the memory footprint of these hashes. No benchmarks, but I think this is a worthy improvement because the hashes are something that would be likely to have significant portions loaded into the cache of every CPU on some workloads. This comes at the "expense" of 1. reintroducing the memory prefetch into the hash traversal loop; 2. adding new pids to the head of the list instead of the tail. I suspect that if this was a big problem then the hash isn't sized well or could benefit from moving hot entries to the head. Also, account for all the pid hashes when reporting hash memory usage. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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