Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> ... and it's not like sys_close() or sys_open() is a majorly critical 
> path, is it?

open/close/stat/lstat are _the_ most important system calls, so yes, it's 
a majorly critical path. MUCH more so than opening a new TCP connection.

You _may_ open a few hundred TCP connections a second (yeah, yeah, don't 
tell me about unrealistic benchmarks that do more), but that's on a server 
with good bandwidth etc. open/closes easily happen tens of _thousands_ of 
times a second. We're talking sub-microsecond system calls.

Whether get_random_int() is noticeable or not, I dunno. But that path is a 
hell of a lot more performance-sensitive than pretty much anything else.

		Linus
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