Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:26:11 -0500 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of maxsockets. Message-ID: <20020321222611.A87587@unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <20020322025429.K3059-100000@patrocles.silby.com>; from silby@silby.com on Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:59:04AM -0600 References: <20020320152915.Q41335-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <20020322025429.K3059-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
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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
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