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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:24:51 -0500
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To: Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_kern.c
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In-Reply-To: <200301041926.h04JQZVo035638@repoman.freebsd.org>; from alc@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:26:35AM -0800
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Alan Cox [alc@FreeBSD.org] wrote:
> alc         2003/01/04 11:26:35 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/vm               vm_kern.c 
>   Log:
>   Allow kmem_malloc() without Giant if M_NOWAIT is specified.

Hurray!  Thank you!  

This clears the way for most network drivers to be INTR_MPSAFE (ie,
Giant-free).  The only exceptions are drivers like if_bge, if_ti, etc,
which roll their own jumbo frames and use refcounters malloc'ed by
the mbuf subsystem when calling m_extadd() or MEXTADD().  Those are
easy to fix by using pre-allocated ref counters and the ext type
EXT_EXTREF...

Anyway, thanks again.

Drew

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