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To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
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In-Reply-To: <20031127070239.GA12950@wombat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> (Tim
 Robbins's message of "Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:02:39 +1100")
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Subject: Re: Port of Niels Provos's file descriptor allocation code
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Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> writes:
> I've ported Niels Provos's file descriptor allocation code to FreeBSD
> in case anyone wants to try it out & run some benchmarks. If the performa=
nce
> boost turns out to be worth the added complexity, I might clean it up a
> bit and commit it.

What exactly would be the point?  If this is the OpenBSD fdalloc code,
recent widely-publicized benchmarks have shown it to be inferior to
ours.  Perhaps you should concentrate on improving vm_map_find() and
vm_map_findspace() performance instead?

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