overhead of namei (was: ... would you want in the GNU OS?)

[Don Libes]

In article <201 at sopwith.UUCP> snoopy at sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>"With the addition of the two caches, the percentage of system time
>devoted to name translation dropped from 25 percent to less than 10
>percent."
>
>	_The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System_
>		by Leffler, McKusick, Karels, and Quarterman
>
>It appears that namei() soaks up more cycles than one might expect.

You misunderstood the quote.  It doesn't say anything about percentage
of *total* system time.

Don Libes          libes at cme.nbs.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes