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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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