On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> On that theme, the form of accept2() where you provide a pre-prepared
> socket recycled from a previously shut down client has another
> scalability advantage:
>
> The kernel does not have to search the fd array to find the smallest
> free fd value.
it'd be easier to just have a personality or other such task flag
indicating that the task doesn't need the smallest-free-fd semantic; and
then the kernel could just maintain a free list for the task. (if this is
even a performance problem)
Dean
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