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From: Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni.trematerra@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: panic in uma_startup for many-core amd64 system
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 01/11/2010 19:09 Giovanni Trematerra said the following:
>> Here the patch that was in my mind.
>> The patch doesn't implement dynamic slab size just allow
>> to have a multipage slab to back uma_zone objects.
>> I'm going to work more on the topic "dynamic slab size" soon.
>> I tested the patch on qemu with -smp 32.
>> I'm looking for real hw to test the patch on.
>
> Having only skimmed the patch I have a question - is this only used for i=
nternal
> zones? =A0"Application" zones with large items still use off-page slabs?
>

Yes, it is used only for internal zones. Other zones will go off-page as us=
ual.

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Giovanni Trematerra