On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Davide, are you sure we want FIFO for non sequential allocations ?
>
> This tends to use all the fmap slots, and not very cache friendly
> if an app does a lot of [open(),...,close()] things. We already got a
> perf drop because of RCUification of file freeing (FIFO mode instead
> of LIFO given by kmalloc()/kfree())
>
> If the idea behind this FIFO was security (ie not easy for an app to predict
> next glibc file handle), we/glibc might use yet another FD_SECUREMODE flag,
> wich ORed with O_NONSEQFD would ask to fdmap_newfd() to take the tail of
> fmap->slist, not head.
Uli, would it be OK to rely only on base randomization and use a LIFO
instead? We have base randomization, plus LIFO does not mean strictly
sequential like legacy allocator, just more compatc and cache friendly.
- Davide
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