Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:52:46 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@nkth.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Subject: Re: reclaiming v_data of free vnodes Message-ID: <3C7A87FE.6A02E830@mindspring.com> References: <200202231556.g1NFu9N9040749@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202242041.g1OKfXt95731@apollo.backplane.com> <200202250325.g1P3PVN9092431@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <200202250444.g1P4i8X29005@apollo.backplane.com> <200202251437.g1PEb12R001419@bunko> <3C7A5D24.E11A6693@mindspring.com> <200202251754.g1PHsTs50126@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Seigo Tanimura wrote: > :> One question before increasing kern.vm.kmem.size: why does ffs not use > :> the zone allocator for inodes? > : > :It doesn't need to, so it doesn't. > > I supose it could. It doesn't for historical reasons and also probably > because the size of an 'inode' depends on the filesystem. How many new > zones do you want to wind up with? It doesn't because it's a bad idea to precommit KVA space when there isn't an architectural requirement for it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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