[patch] extending alloc_unr(9) to allocate specific unit numbers

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <201006211109.11653.jhb at freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Saturday 19 June 2010 11:48:22 am Jaakko Heinonen wrote:

>> As an example here is md(4) converted to use
>> alloc_unr() / alloc_unr_specific():
>> 
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/md-alloc_unr.diff
>
>This sounds useful to me.  Perhaps ask phk@?

My only worry is that if people start to use this indiscriminantly to
store random collections of numbers, then it is far from the optimal
data structure for it.

Other than that: go for it.

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