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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Dan Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: how to submit ideas/code for NFS changes?
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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.'

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