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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:35:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc: net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Getting rid of maxsockets.
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> 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
>

We have talked about it quite a bit.  I'd love to remove the hard limit on
mbufs.  I may do this soon, but I have other uma related work that will
probably come before it.

Jeff


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