quadratic behaviour

[Andries Brouwer]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:11:57PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:05:17AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > because, as mentioned before, that particular loop i fixed in 2.5.35.
> 
> But now that I look at patch-2.5.35
> I don't see any improvement: for_each_task() is now called
> for_each_process(), but otherwise base.c is just as quadratic
> as it was.
> 
> So, why do you think this problem has been fixed?

Let me repeat this, and call it an observation instead of a question,
so that you do not think I am in doubt.

If you have 20000 processes, and do ps, then get_pid_list() will be
called 1000 times, and the for_each_process() loop will examine
10000000 processes.

Unlike the get_pid() situation, which was actually amortized linear with a very
small coefficient, here we have a bad quadratic behaviour, still in 2.5.37.

Andries