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On Nov 12, 2012, at 4:11 AM, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I don't think many places depend on M_NOWAIT digging deep.  I'm
> perfectly happy with having M_NOWAIT give up on first try.  Only
> together with M_TRY_REALLY_HARD it would dig into reserves.
> 
> PS: We have a really nasty namespace collision with the mbuf flags
> which use the M_* prefix as well.

Agreed. 

>