Subject: Re: changing default for UFS_DIRHASH and NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2005 11:42:12
Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:57:36AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> UFS_DIRHASH and NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY are reputedly stable for all the
>> people using them, but we still have them commented out in our
>> GENERICs.
>> 
>> I'd like to propose uncommenting them out, i.e. turning them on by
>> default.
>
> As I recal, Juergen has said that NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY works fine in a few
> circumstances, but not in others, and that he didn't favor enabling it by
> default. I'll have to go with the author's opinion on that one.

I didn't think Juergen was the author of NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY, and I
don't remember anyone complaining about it in any way at all for
literally years now. Are you sure about this?

Perry