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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:10:11 -0500
From:      Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slab allocator
Message-ID:  <20020227181011.A62898@unixdaemons.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C7D6586.558B8EE1@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:02:30PM -0800
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:02:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Bosko Milekic wrote:
> >   OK, since you obviously know what you're talking about, how about you
> > sit down and produce some patches for Jeff? I think he would appreciate
> > it very much, instead of the generalizations and "you should not do
> > this, but do X" abstractions.
> 
> Before you get up in arms... in case this wasn't clear...
> 
> I think that his code is importable without any patches.
> 
> I was pointing out how the complaints people have can be
> addressed without altering the theme or the majority of
> the code itself.  I was not suggesting that the changes
> must be made before import.
> 
> The comments on not renaming the files, and the prefix
> on the name are salient, as are the statistics comments
> (keep appropriate statistics, rather than trying to
> emulate previously appropriate statistics).
> 
> I would like to see him address the issues he feels need
> to be addressed, but since the performance is not worse
> with the code, all of that can be handled later, after
> an import.
> 
> It's certain that the current allocation code can't SMP
> scale the way Jeff's code can and it's a step in the
> right direction.
> 
> Now is the time to get things into -current, so that
> they can be stabilized (if necessary) and improved (I
> think several people, myself included, believe the code
> can be improved, but it doesn't have to be before it
> can go in).
> 
> Kirk likes the code; what else is required before simply
> importing it, and making the vm_zone code optional so
> that the rest can be converted?
> 
> -- Terry

  Thank you. I believe that we now understand each other and are
tuned into the same frequency. :-)

-- 
Bosko Milekic
bmilekic@unixdaemons.com
bmilekic@FreeBSD.org


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