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Re: serious performance regression in .41
christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
> <...>
>
> I still feel that for low power machines the filtering iterator is
> a much better answer, since it avoids a lot of extra work. Why
> lock and unlock the mntvnode lock and vget() something you are not
> going to use. At least add the ability via flags to skip the
> uninteresting vnodes in the iterator.
While locking/unlocking in such loop already has significant cost,
vget()ing on all vnodes additionally has cache thrashing effect.
That is indeed undesirable.
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Mindaugas
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