Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern imgact_elf.c init_main.c kern_checkpoint.c kern_descrip.c kern_event.c sys_generic.c sys_pipe.c uipc_syscalls.c uipc_usrreq.c vfs_aio.c vfs_syscalls.c src/sys/sys filedesc.h src/sys/dev/misc/streams streams.c ...

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 01:13:01PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>
> > Lately Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >
> > >  Log:
> > >  File descriptor cleanup stage 2, remove the separate arrays for file
> > >  pointers, fileflags, and allocation counts and replace the mess with a
> > >  single structural array.  Also revamp the code that checks whether the
> > >  file descriptor array is built-in or allocated.
> >
> > can anybody enlighten me why this was done in the first place?
> > this way it's much clearer anyways
>
>
> But it is also slower because the amount of data which has to be copied when
> the array is extended is now doubled. (pointer vs. struct fdnode)
>
> Joerg

	Can't we not just make them all allocated?  I am assuming here that
	allocator descriptor arrays is "pointer" and the other is "fdnode",
	according to your interpretation, right?

					Hiten Pandya