From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 21 19:26:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B6F37B42B for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:26:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (bmilekic@localhost.unixdaemons.com [127.0.0.1]) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.2/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2M3QCJX087890; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:26:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: angelica.unixdaemons.com: Host bmilekic@localhost.unixdaemons.com [127.0.0.1] claimed to be angelica.unixdaemons.com Received: (from bmilekic@localhost) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.2/8.12.1/Submit) id g2M3QBre087888; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:26:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bmilekic) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:26:11 -0500 From: Bosko Milekic To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Jeff Roberson , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of maxsockets. Message-ID: <20020321222611.A87587@unixdaemons.com> References: <20020320152915.Q41335-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <20020322025429.K3059-100000@patrocles.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020322025429.K3059-100000@patrocles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:59:04AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:59:04AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > I've looked over vmstat -z with a UMA kernel, it's really nice to know > that everything is coexisting together now. > > There's one big target, though: mbufs. I know that Bosko put a lot of > work into his new mbuf allocator, but if you could find a way to merge > mbufs into the slab allocator the benefits would be huge. Have you > discussed doing this with Bosko yet? > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack As I have previously mentionned, mb_alloc *is* a slab-like allocator but I am prepared to remove large chunks of it and instead glue-into UMA if this can be done in a relatively clean and elegant manner which, after looking at UMA, I've decided that it probably can. -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@unixdaemons.com bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message