From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 06:17:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C664616A4CF for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:17:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D36C43D31 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:17:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 10406 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2004 06:16:44 -0000 Received: from niwun.pair.com (HELO localhost) (209.68.2.70) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2004 06:16:44 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:16:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Alan Cox In-Reply-To: <20040617232217.GC18591@cs.rice.edu> Message-ID: <20040618011324.J72823@odysseus.silby.com> References: <200406170008.i5H08NDt085108@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040617182031.GA8170@samodelkin.net> <20040617204813.GA10670@samodelkin.net> <20040617214827.GB6029@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <7071.208.178.23.220.1087509793.squirrel@208.178.23.220> <20040617232217.GC18591@cs.rice.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: Alfred Perlstein cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: Ken Smith cc: Max Khon Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mbuf.h src/sys/kern uipc_mbuf.c uipc_syscalls.c src/usr.bin/netstat mbuf.c src/lib/libc/sys sendfile.2 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 06:17:08 -0000 On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Alan Cox wrote: > This is true of RELENG_4. In HEAD sf_bufs are very different. They > are used to implement pipes, swap-backed mds, exec_map_first_page(), I understand that, but I don't see it as a reason to remove sfbuf statistics from netstat -m. sfbufs certainly have an important role for anyone running Apache 2 (which uses sendfile by default), and if someone is having network memory shortages, it makes sense to show them the relevant info when they go looking. Mike "Silby" Silbersack