From owner-freebsd-net Wed May 16 15: 3:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B04737B424 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 944A167B05; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:03:46 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Bill Fumerola Cc: raviprasad20@netscape.net, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD network buffers Message-ID: <20010516150346.A35345@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4F2A777A.3AABE4DC.9513E96F@netscape.net> <20010516002427.P37979@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010516002427.P37979@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:24:27AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:24:27AM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:17:44AM -0400, raviprasad20@netscape.net wrote: >=20 > > My doubt is whether mbuf's along with clusters will be used for large d= ata sizes like 65536 bytes? >=20 > No, for data that big we use vnodes. That way we can swap out in times of= low > memory. To really take advantage of this, use softupdates so the meta-data > operations on the network buffers can be scheduled async. It seemed like a legitimate and serious enough question, I'm not sure what warranted this response. Kris --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7AvlBWry0BWjoQKURAsPZAKDuFwI5GtFwhMf9XJTVzuoJvOW/ZgCg3A8X STkoUWLN3Y2SCoQ64TPDdm0= =boUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message