Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:48:54 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Dan Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to submit ideas/code for NFS changes? Message-ID: <20030121174854.GF33821@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0301210949580.17958@bowser.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0301210949580.17958@bowser.eecs.harvard.edu>
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* Dan Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu> [030121 07:05] wrote: > > As part of some work related to my thesis, I've made some experimental > changes to the FreeBSD NFS server code. Some of the changes improved > end-to-end read performance substantially. For example, improving the > read-ahead heuristic to recognize and handle some predictable but > non-sequential access patterns can boost performance by at least 40%. > > How do I go about submitting my changes to the FreeBSD developers so > that they can review them, and decide if they want to incorporate > them, make them an optional patch, or ignore them, etc? The best thing to do is to open a bug report, then post here about it. It's probably best if you CC Matt Dillon (dillon@freebsd.org) and myself on it as well. Thank you for taking an interest! -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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