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Date:      Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:57:00 +0200
From:      Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0R todo list - hash sizes
Message-ID:  <20051003145659.GA49975@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20051002192259.GA37178@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20051001085358.GA62022@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20051001154628.GA64006@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051002095828.GA51218@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20051002192259.GA37178@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 03:22:59PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:58:28AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:46:28AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:53:58AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > scottl@ removed:
> > > >     <td>Nullfs (and perhaps other filesystems) use an absurdly small
> > > >      hash size that causes significant performance penalties.</td>
> > > > 
> > > > this item from 6.0R todo list. How was this solved? I didnt see any commits
> > > > to enlarge the hash values. Its still the same... why it was removed then?
> > > 
> > > It was an incorrect suggestion on my part - it turns out this was not
> > > the cause of the performance penalties, and Jeff fixed them long ago.
> > > 
> > > Kris
> > > 
> > 
> > anyway - what sense does it make to have hash of size 4 entries? (fdescfs has
> > this for example)
> 
> It doesn't cause any performance penalty I can measure.

maybe using hash then is useless and the hash functionality could be removed to
simplify the code?



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