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To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>
Cc: ken@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Jumbo Clusters in mb_alloc
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Bosko Milekic writes:
 > 
 > Hi guys,
 > 
 >     Can you put this (the attached) to use?
 > 
 >     It's the implementation of jumbo clusters within mb_alloc, as
 >     discussed on -net not too long ago.
 > 
 >     I have not written the allocation interface yet as I would like to
 >     know if you could put them to use in some of the drivers, and also
 >     what you would need from the interface.

I can certainly use this in my (3rd party) GM Myrinet driver.

I think the tigon driver can be made to use this, but I have no tigon
hardware anymore.  I also think bge could be made to use this, but
again, no hardware to play with it on.

Drew

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