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Cc: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
	Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: fdalloc optimization
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20050822083320.GA32668@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>, Divacky Roman writes:
> 
> 
>>   N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
>>x 100         39957        959570         41444      87169.69     201011.84
>>+ 100         37786        962107         38766      66353.09     158258.74
>>No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
>>
>>anyway - commenting out duplicate code MUST speed it up, maybe insignificantly
>>but still ;)
> 
> 
> It used to be that life was that simple, but with three levels of caches and
> deep pipelines it isn't anymore.
> 
> But taken from the other side: you can also read this as your patch does no
> damage to performance, so if code clarity is improved (havn't looked at your
> patch myself) then that would be another good reason.

Danfe posted about some DFBSD work in that area an hour ago.

-- 
Andre