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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2013 19:18:13 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com>
Cc:        alc@freebsd.org, davide@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, avg@freebsd.org, rank1seeker@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: dynamically calculating NKPT [was: Re: huge ktr buffer]
Message-ID:  <20130205171813.GP2522@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <CAFgRE9GMeY4dVAzqUsHz2emo82dVODBDw2xYJMcPmxxTm6Rx=g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:12:41AM -0800, Neel Natu wrote:
> Hi Konstantin,
>=20
> Sounds fine. I can bump it up to 8 pages.
>=20
> Also, wrt your comment about scaling this number based on available
> memory, I wonder if it makes sense to optimize for 16KB of additional
> space.
If it boots on 128MB as is, I am completely fine with the existing patch
(after slack increase) as well.

>=20
> I would much rather work with you and Alan to fix pmap_growkernel() so
> we don't need to care about this slack in the first place :-)

Sure, if you consider this important enough.  I do agree with mdf that
having this happen without any user intervention is good. But having
just a tunable for the slack might be much less labor-intensive and
good enough.

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