New file descriptor allocation code in FreeBSD

Skip Ford skip.ford at verizon.net
Thu Jan 15 15:02:39 PST 2004


Xin LI wrote:
> FYI, the performance difference caused by this commit is very impressive on
> FreeBSD:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~des/fdbench/
> 
> While porting this back to -STABLE and DragonFly is not trivial (many 5-ish
> calls :( ), but I think it is worthy to have a look on it :)

I ported the original patch Tim posted.  It's been in my tree for
a while now but I haven't had much of a chance to test it.
Porting it was straight forward so porting DES's version shouldn't
be too difficult.

-- 
Skip





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