contributing to fbsd
Brian Fundakowski Feldman
green at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 26 13:52:29 PST 2005
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 04:32:56PM -0500, Mark W. Krentel wrote:
> > The VM map algorithms are the same as ever, though. They use linear
> > traversal along with a cached reference to the last lookup. There
> > are certainly some workloads that should benefit from this, so it
> > definitely could be something you could work on.
>
> Not any more. The first_free hint was replaced by an O(log n)
> algorithm built into the splay tree back in August 2004. See
> rev. 1.357 of vm_map.c.
Cool, I don't think I noticed that happen. That would be for 5.x and
6.x both, then, too.
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