4.2 scheduler

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Fri Nov 22 18:38:37 AEST 1985


The biggest slowdown in 4.2 was probably the long file names.
These slow down namei() quite a bit; and kernel profiles on our
machines have shown that namei() is by far the top competitor for
user CPU time of all the non-interrupt level code.

The fix is to install 4.3 as soon as it is out.
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