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On 11 November 2012 20:24, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:
> I think very few of the m_nowaits actually need the reserve behavior. We should probably switch away from it digging that deep by default and introduce a flag and/or a per thread flag to set the behavior.

There's already a perfectly fine flag - M_WAITOK. Just don't hold any
locks, right? :)


Adrian