From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 22 12:15:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA10636 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA10628 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:15:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14523; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:15:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA02205; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:15:05 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:15:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709221915.NAA02205@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bruce Evans Cc: gibbs@plutotech.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/vx if_vx.c if_vxreg.h src/sys/i386/apm apm.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC files.i386 src/sys/i386/eisa 3c5x9.c aha1742.c aic7770.c bt74x.c eisaconf.c eisaconf.h if_fea.c if_vx_eisa.c src/sys/i386/i386 a In-Reply-To: <199709221906.FAA26566@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199709221906.FAA26566@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans writes: > >Various BSDs. I chose not to implement a backwards compatibility interface > >as I'd have to allocate even more space to make it as efficient as the new > >one and updating client code is easy to do. It's a small price to pay for > > Wouldn't using the old interface for everything and hashing on (ftn, > arg) in untimeout() be efficient enough? I think it takes less space > than now - clients wouldn't need space for cookies. Setting the initial callouts would still be O(n), though how badly that effects things is still unknown. Nate ps. What I really would like to see if multiple timers/process. :) :)