Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix"

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:21:17 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Chuck Lever wrote:

> > The order is approximate priority. It may also not be totally accurate.
> > Suggestions/fixes welcome.
>
> may i suggest:
> + some or all of ingo's latency patches
> + 32 bit uid/gid support
> + madvise
> + ibm's task struct cacheline fix for goodness()
> + appropriate dynamic sizing of kernel hash tables

Chuck - your fdalloc patch was fairly self-contained wasn't it? That's
a nice, cheap speedup in some useful cases, isn't it?

Matthew.

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