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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: RFC: unit_list routines 
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<<On Wed, 23 May 2001 21:46:55 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:

> If true, the rman code should have a big "XXX: rewrite" on top of it.

You're not paying attention.  The resource manager has no such problem
-- sparse ranges like that are precisely what it was written for.

I suggested that, if Brian was unhappy with the overhead of the
resource manager, he should just keep a bitmap of available numbers.
He responded with this strawman.  I responded that his strawman was
not reasonable.

-GAWollman


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