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Subject: Re: svn commit: r260898 - head/sys/kern
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
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On 22 Jan 2014, at 20:05, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:

> .. Make it be an offset into the table rather than a pointer, then we =
can do dirty rcu style hacks to just replace and grow the table as we =
need more memory.
>=20
> Don't we have a standard way to pull memory from the top of the =
physmem area early on for allocations like this?

Perhaps a bit overkill for this problem? =20

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Rui Paulo