From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 21 21:21:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d135.as15.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.136.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614D737B404 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2MBIwt2000792; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:18:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g2MBIpcl000789; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:18:53 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:18:51 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Jeff Roberson , Subject: Re: Getting rid of maxsockets. In-Reply-To: <20020321234453.A96524@unixdaemons.com> Message-ID: <20020322051526.W370-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:35:52PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > > > 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. > > I'm not so sure I like this idea. What would be better (and perhaps > what you meant) is: "be able to expand the size of the mbuf allocation > `pool' at runtime." In any case, we should not jump to quick > conclusions with all data structures right away. Instead, I propose > that we first glue-in mbuf allocations to UMA (not too difficult, given > that UMA provides an allocation routine stub). If this is done properly > [without macro-performance loss] then it should be rather trivial to > bring in new functionality. > > -- > Bosko Milekic Expanding is good, contracting is better. :) Whatever rate you want to do the switchover at would be best; I don't see any urgent need to rush the work. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message