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From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@gns.com.br>
Subject: namei()
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> From: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com>
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 10:08:31 +0500
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions) 
> 
> >>>> "tl" == "Terry Lambert" <terry@lambert.org> writes
> 
> tl> This is mostly because the BSD namei() interface is a piece of shit no
> tl> one seems prepared to allow a change to because there are one or two
> tl> CSRG hackers locked in a closet somewhere, and every once in a while
> tl> they shove something out under the door, and God Forbid we lose out
> tl> on the ability to integrate those occasional changes.
> 
> On another point, I did some basic kernel profiling while doing some
> assorted operations (make kernel, find | cpio -O /dev/null) etc.
> 
> Surprisingly `namei' turned out to be the single biggest contributor to
> time spent in the kernel.

Does anyone have some ideas on improving namei()?

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Daniel C. Sobral                (8-DCS)
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