Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 07:15:18 -0600 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu> To: dyson@FreeBSD.org Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs), roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: pbufs (was: Re: ufs is too slow?) Message-ID: <199611131315.HAA03860@friley216.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:22:28 -0500. <199611120422.XAA03836@dyson.iquest.net>
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>> >> Yes, please get rid of the locked buffer stuff. That code is EVIL. >> >> BTW,do you have any plans for removing the 64k I/O limitation? It sorta >> sucks when you want to write a 1meg segment to have to cut it up into such >> small pieces. >> >You have always hated that!!! I plan to do something to create alternate >mappings: segments. Segments will probably use a yet to be enhanced >VM/Buffer cache pbuf mechanism (not to be confused with VJ's networking VJ's pbufs? ive not heard of these before, what are they? i remember hearing something about him rewriting the tcp/ip stack to work well on gigabit networks... this wouldnt have anything to do with it, would it? probably not i suppose, but if anyone could point me to papers on anything related, id apreciate it. :) Chris Csanady >pbufs.) There will be no 64K limitation as such. I am still listening >to "bright ideas" though :-). > >John >
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