Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 16:56:04 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: hutton@ISI.EDU Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vm_page_alloc_contig again Message-ID: <199707142356.QAA11304@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jul 1997 16:00:04 PDT." <199707142301.AA11182@zephyr.isi.edu>
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>I was hoping for a response from someone on the core team about the >functionality of vm_page_alloc_contig...does it do what it is supposed to do >in version 3.0? > >One of the last emails I see on it in the hackers archive suggest it doesn't >work as intended - see the included email. The comments in cvsweb on vm >revisions also seem unclear as to the status of vm_page_contig_alloc. vm_page_alloc_contig works fine, but it must be used at startup time as it has no mechanism for doing paging and thus can fail if memory becomes too fragmented. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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