Subject: Re: Slow 486 seems really slow
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/14/2000 19:48:51
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:29:04 -0500 
 David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca> wrote:

 > In the form of a kernel thread? Or were you hinting at some other aspect
 > that needs to be fixed?

It needs to be rewritten completely, and not just be a hack underneath
UFS :-)

I.e. block allocation should dynamically allocate pages (up to some
hardlimit, of course), and freeing a block should dynamically free
pages... it should be using pageable kernel memory, not hanging on a
user process's address space, etc.

In short, it should be like Sun's tmpfs, without the bugs :-)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>