Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD
Bruce M Simpson
bms at spc.org
Wed Oct 22 08:51:07 PDT 2003
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:40:44AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > The actual commit quote reads:
> >
> > "use a red-black tree to find entries in the vm_map. augment the
> > red-black tree to find free space between entries. speeds up memory
> > allocation, etc..."
> >
> > I am wondering if there is a compelling reason why the technique used
> > by OpenBSD could not be adapted to FreeBSD's VM system.
>
> Probably just a case of "too much to do and not enough people to do
> it". FreeBSD already has sys/tree.h, which provides the red-black tree
> macros.
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BMS
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