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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:54:20 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VFS patch (was Re: Another SNAPshot CD of 3.0 coming up.. ) 
Message-ID:  <365.872873660@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:13:09 MDT." <199708291513.JAA08860@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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In message <199708291513.JAA08860@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>
>> I have just sent the following vfs patch out for review....
>
>You did a great job of mentioning what functionality this patch
>provides, but what 'purpose' does this patch provide?  (ie; fix a vnode
>leak when the system decides that it can't hold it anymore, etc...)

It hopefully improves the recycling of vnodes, one particular aspect
is to not have "not-wanted-for-recycling" vnodes on the freelist
in the first place.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."



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