Re: [RFC] on general object IDs again

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:24:33AM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > In the second place the only reason why we would need O(N^2) complexity
> > instead of O(NlogN) is if the comparison system call only compares for
> > identity instead of returning a result that allows us to order the
> > objects we are worrying about.
> 
> Hm... I like this one. As I said we'd have to do the sorting anyway so
> having the less-equals-above comparator right in the kernel sounds OK.
> 

So it would look something like

	sys_cmp_kid(pid1, pid2, kid-type)

(where kid is kernel-id), right ? Or I miss something ?

	Cyrill
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