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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:27:33 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADS-UP] mbuma is in the tree
Message-ID:  <20040604112733.GC98227@cell.sick.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040603151911.GB12727@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <20040531215101.GA60299@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040602094940.GA80394@cell.sick.ru> <200406021056.53005.sam@errno.com> <20040603094626.GA89838@cell.sick.ru> <20040603151911.GB12727@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:19:11AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
B> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:56:52AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
B> > S> allocated using this mechanism.  I did it once for vlan tags but botched it 
B> > S> (didn't handle module references properly) so backed it. But there's no 
B> > S> reason someone cannot redo it or convert other heavily used fixed size tags 
B> > S> to use a zone.
B> > 
B> > Have you saved your efforts? May I look at them?
B> 
B> They are in the CVS history of sys/net/if_vlan.c.

I see now, thanks.

Question to Sam: have you performed any tests? Is this definitely
true, that UMAllocing in special zone is faster than general malloc()?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
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