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Date:      Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:58:59 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: fdesc allocation optimization 
Message-ID:  <63334.1124708339@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:51:10 %2B0200." <4309AE1E.8FCC9E1E@freebsd.org> 

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In message <4309AE1E.8FCC9E1E@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann writes:
>Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> 
>> hi there,
>> 
>> i've been browsing some of dfbsd resources recently, and found this one
>> being pretty interesting:
>> 
>> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2005-06/msg00526.html
>> 
>> however, it seemingly did not get attention in our lists.  so i am
>> wondering if there are work/plans on porting hsu@'s work?  i remember
>> that at some point we adopted some openbsd-derived algorithm, but since
>> matt states that this is "far better algorithm then anything we or
>> freebsd thought up before", i figured it worth a look.
>
>Looks certainly good.  Why don't you go ahead and port it over?

It might be worth trying the alloc_unr() code first, it allocates in
O(1) time but takes the hit when freeing.

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