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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>,
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Subject: Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.)
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:* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [020223 14:43] wrote:
:>     This is approximately what I am thinking.  Note that this gives us the
:>     flexibility to create a larger infrastructure around the bucket cache,
:>     such as implement per-cpu caches and so on and so forth.  What I have
:>     here is the minimal implementation.
:
:I strongly object to this implementation right now, please do not
:commit it.  I already explained to you how to make the problem
:go away but instead you insist on some complex api that pins
:memory down like the damn zone allocator.  It's not needed, so
:please don't do it.
:
:-Alfred

    Woa!  Timeout!  I'm not planning on comitting any sort of malloc thingy.
    That was a 10 second thought experiment.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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