Subject: Re: some ideas how to make sysv_shm scale better
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/05/2003 21:23:48
Matthias Drochner wrote:
> This is adjustable at kernel build time, of course. This is ugly and
> should be changed. I don't see a good reason to allocate a fixed size
> table early with allocsys().

It should be adjustable by sysctl. I have this on my
TODO list for a while actually :)

> Comments? (I know, there should be locking for SMP... but it is
> at least not worse than before in this respect)

Thanks for improving the shm code.

Jaromir 
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