Re: [Patch] Scale pidhash_shift/pidhash_size up based on num_possible_cpus().

[Eric W. Biederman]

Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Oops, confusing details.  That was a different problem we had been
> tracking.

Which leads back to the original question.  What were you measuring
that showed improvement with a larger pid hash size?

Almost by definition a larger hash table will perform better.  However
my intuition is that we are talking about something that should be in
the noise for most workloads.

Eric
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