6.0R todo list - hash sizes

Divacky Roman xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz
Sun Oct 2 02:58:32 PDT 2005


On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:46:28AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:53:58AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > scottl@ removed:
> >     <td>Nullfs (and perhaps other filesystems) use an absurdly small
> >      hash size that causes significant performance penalties.</td>
> > 
> > this item from 6.0R todo list. How was this solved? I didnt see any commits
> > to enlarge the hash values. Its still the same... why it was removed then?
> 
> It was an incorrect suggestion on my part - it turns out this was not
> the cause of the performance penalties, and Jeff fixed them long ago.
> 
> Kris
> 

anyway - what sense does it make to have hash of size 4 entries? (fdescfs has
this for example)

roman



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