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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:04:51 +0000
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r214409 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <4CCAC673.7070307@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=v6jp0KdMF4PQiW=DDkdZZdTs%2BHwPzMQU0Xx18@mail.gmail.com>
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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:54 AM, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> [patch attachment was lost]
>>> Ugh... Mailman hates me I guess :(...
>>>
>>>> on 27/10/2010 19:07 Garrett Cooper said the following:
>>>>>    How about this patch? I implemented this as a readonly tunable and
>>>> I don't think that it's correct to call it a tunable or use
>>>> CTLFLAG_RDTUN.
>>>> As I understand it is a read-only sysctl.
>>> Converted to CTLFLAG_RD.
>>>
>>>>> sysconf tunable, because (AFAIK) the value that is being tested
>>>>> shouldn't change during runtime after the system has been booted up,
>>>>> and figuring that the value wasn't going to change it was better to
>>>>> lose 4/8 bytes on the kernel stack instead of having to recompute the
>>>>> value every time in a function call, with the associated lost heap /
>>>>> stack memory in the process, as the assumption is that this libcall
>>>>> was going to be called frequently by some programs.
>> The patch looks fine to me. ;-)
> 
> If no one opposes the change, could you please commit the patch for me David?
> Thanks!
> -Garrett
> 
The SC_XXX constants are in rather odd order!

 > #define _SC_XOPEN_XCU_VERSION   117 /* user */
 > #endif
 >
 > #if __BSD_VISIBLE
 > #define _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF    57
 > #define _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN    58
 > #endif

Does someone just want to save some typing for __BSD_VISIBLE ?
It is wrong if it this true.

Regards,
David Xu




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