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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:32:01 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port of Niels Provos's file descriptor allocation code
Message-ID:  <xzpvfp4816m.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20031127070239.GA12950@wombat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> (Tim Robbins's message of "Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:02:39 %2B1100")
References:  <20031127070239.GA12950@wombat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> writes:
> I've ported Niels Provos's file descriptor allocation code to FreeBSD
> in case anyone wants to try it out & run some benchmarks. If the performa=
nce
> boost turns out to be worth the added complexity, I might clean it up a
> bit and commit it.

What exactly would be the point?  If this is the OpenBSD fdalloc code,
recent widely-publicized benchmarks have shown it to be inferior to
ours.  Perhaps you should concentrate on improving vm_map_find() and
vm_map_findspace() performance instead?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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