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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jaakko Heinonen <jh@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] extending alloc_unr(9) to allocate specific unit numbers
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:25:10PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <201006211109.11653.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
> >On Saturday 19 June 2010 11:48:22 am Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>=20
> >> As an example here is md(4) converted to use
> >> alloc_unr() / alloc_unr_specific():
> >>=20
> >> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/md-alloc_unr.diff
> >
> >This sounds useful to me.  Perhaps ask phk@?
>=20
> My only worry is that if people start to use this indiscriminantly to
> store random collections of numbers, then it is far from the optimal
> data structure for it.
>=20
> Other than that: go for it.

IIRC this is the one missing feature we need to convert if_clone to unr
so I support it.

-- Brooks

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