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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: optimize free kioctx slot search
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 07:13:57 -0700
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On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 06:22:10PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
> to the new free slot if it's smaller than 'next_free'. So that we can
> ensure that the slots before 'next_free' are all used, and the search can start
> from 'next_free' to reduce the search and improve the performance.

Have you benchmarked it?  What kinds of improvements are you seeing?

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