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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:47:59 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "alc@freebsd.org" <alc@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com>, "Sears, Steven" <Steven.Sears@netapp.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof
Message-ID:  <22625087-4579-44AA-9633-CA81FAF6E8E7@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <50A0E77C.6010108@freebsd.org>
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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. 

> 





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