From owner-freebsd-net Wed Mar 20 11:41:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799B037B400 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:41:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 4FF5EAE163; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:41:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:41:11 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jeff Roberson Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting rid of maxsockets. Message-ID: <20020320194111.GK455@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020320143354.Y41335-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020320143354.Y41335-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Jeff Roberson [020320 11:36] wrote: > Would anyone be upset if I got rid of maxsockets and consequently the > limits on the *pcb zones? This was previously used so that the zone > allocator could allocate items at interrupt time. Now you can just supply > M_NOWAIT/WAITOK and get the desired effect without a hard limit. That depends on what this implies. :) Does it mean that when giving M_NOWAIT there's a chance it may fail more often than the old zone allocator? Meaning does M_NOWAIT mean "only allocate from cache" or do you do close to the same thing that the zone allocator does except in a more flexible manner? Sorry if the question is niave, I'm not extremely familiar with the previous and current code. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message