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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:21:58 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Mike Ma <mikemandarine@gmail.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r260091 - in head/sys/cddl: contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/dtrace contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/sys dev/dtrace
Message-ID:  <7A335B4A-D986-4E6E-8D8B-22E7E7991A75@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131231023952.GA11997@charmander.home>
References:  <201312301737.rBUHbW3I035088@svn.freebsd.org> <20131230204210.GD71033@FreeBSD.org> <20131231023952.GA11997@charmander.home>

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Il giorno 30/dic/2013, alle ore 21:40, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> ha scritto:

> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:42:10AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 05:37:32PM +0000, Mark Johnston wrote:
>> M> Author: markj
>> M> Date: Mon Dec 30 17:37:32 2013
>> M> New Revision: 260091
>> M> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/260091
>> M> 
>> M> Log:
>> M>   Now that vmem(9) is available, use vmem arenas to allocate probe and
>> M>   aggregation IDs, as is done in the upstream illumos code. This still
>> M>   requires some FreeBSD-specific code, as our vmem API is not identical to the
>> M>   one in illumos.
>> M>   
>> M>   Submitted by:	Mike Ma <mikemandarine@gmail.com>
>> 
>> IMHO, alloc_unr() was lighter and thus better for allocating just IDs.
> 
> That's true; I committed the change since it helps keep our code similar
> to upstream and, as Pedro notes, it was a long-standing todo item on the
> wiki. After doing some testing, it looks like vmem is a bit slower:
> process startup is on the order of tenths of milliseconds longer with
> this change, for executables containing one USDT probe (since such
> probes are allocated during process startup).
> 
> So probably the right thing to do is revert this change. It doesn't
> actually reduce the upstream diff as much as I'd hoped, anyway.
> 

Since it is our option to decide, perhaps just keep the vmem version as reference and #ifdef FreeBSD alloc_unr() ?

I don’t think we need to keep most of those SUN defines anymore.

Pedro.




> Thanks,
> -Mark




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