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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
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<<On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:37:22 -0700, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> said:

> - as you said, like ~ 64k), and allocate that way. That way there's no
> fragmentation to worry about - everything's just using a custom slab
> allocator for these large allocation sizes.

> It's kind of tempting to suggest freebsd support such a thing, as I
> can see increasing requirements for specialised applications that want
> this.

I think this would be an Extremely Good Thing if someone has the
cycles to implement it, and teach some of the popular network
interfaces to use it.

-GAWollman