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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:22:36 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r214409 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <4CC851CC.80509@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinzP%2Btj3y%2B-r4-%2BgHgCzg6BJ-ZpWru365zysSEF@mail.gmail.com>
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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.

> 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.
> Thanks!

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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