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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:02:24 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fixing Union_mounts
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960711144514.10112B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960711113222.8671C-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>

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Sorry, I can't shutup.  I'm fuzzy on 4), and will be until I read the
sources more.

I just want to backup and talk about the design objectives.  The fathers
of 4.4 thought having a global vnode pool vs. partitioning the pools per
fs was a win for kernel memory management when several different file
systems are in use. 

Your design goals seems to be an SMP perspective which means we need to
think differently to understand what your saying.

If we step back and look at this from the point of view of the 4.4
implementers, what are the consequences of moving away from a global
vnode pool?  What are the wins?

-mike hancock





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