Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:14:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Charles Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Panic: Out of mbuf clusters Message-ID: <199912312314.QAA18578@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:06:42 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912312302340.79474-100000@paradox.nexuslabs.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912312302340.79474-100000@paradox.nexuslabs.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912312302340.79474-100000@paradox.nexuslabs.com> Charles Youse writes: : Why aren't they dynamically allocated using the kernel memory management : routines? Because it is hard to malloc in an interrupt context. It is expensive to do this and on older hardware it was felt that it would be better to have a large enough pool and not have to worry about the hair that doing things dynamically would require. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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