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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200911301427.23166.jhb at freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Sunday 29 November 2009 6:27:49 pm Scott Long wrote:

>It actually does get used by the nvidia driver, but so far in what I have
>done in my jhb_bio branch I have tried several different approaches which
>is why the API is as verbose as it is.

I would warn equally against rigorous simplification and gratuitous
generalization in this, I've tried both approaches in prototypes and
neither works out well from an API point of view.

The insight that expended CPU cycles are practially unmeasurable
in this context should not be forgotten, even in the quest to
get ever higher transactions per second numbers.

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