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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706081108130.5519@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:11:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Um, how cheap do you need it? get_random_int() is actually pretty
> > cheep, since it was designed to be usable by the networking stack for
> > sequence numbers for TCP packets; and it's not like sys_close() or
> > sys_open() is a majorly critical path, is it? If the concern is
>
> At this point wouldn't it be cheaper to allocate file handles using a
> different algorithm than firing up the RNG - say like in the POSIX
> fashion ...
The only reason we use a floating base, is because Uli preferred to have
non-exactly predictable fd allocations. There no reason of re-doing the
same POSIX mistake all over again:
Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum
- Davide
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