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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:27:01 -0700
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>
To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
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Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: fdesc allocation optimization
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > 
> > Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> writes:
> > > When did you commit this?  Is it only in post 5.0 releases?
> > 
> > Early 2004, before RELENG_5 was branched.
> 
> That explains why DFBSD didn't have it.  So we are better off in
> anything >5.x despite the uninformed comments on the DFBSD lists.
> 
> -- 
> Andre

I think that they actually did a good bit of research into all
of the fdalloc implementations in the BSDs before choosing
their path. Perhaps misunderstood is a more accurate word than
uninformed.

--Devon