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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: 4.2 scheduler
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 03:38:37 EST
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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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