[PATCH]: fdalloc optimization

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-08-22 09:40, Divacky Roman <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz> wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:54:06PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:45:46AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
>>> I made a patch for fdalloc which could speed it up a bit, its stored under
>>> kern/85176 or http://hysteria.sk/~neologism/kern_descrip.patch
>>
>> That's all nice and everything, but *does* it speed it up a bit? :-)
>
> ie. its never slower but I think this is insignificant. on the other hand -
> buildkernel is not that fdalloc sensitive. dont know how to measure it ;(

By running an application that opens (and keeps open) many files, i.e.
a program that creates many temporary files, keeps them open and then
closes them all at once before exiting?