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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:34:46 +0800
From: Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>
To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT/CFR] machine independent sf_bufs
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:00:43PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 07:29:43PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> M> >  Sorry for top quoting, this is to annoy you :) I got zero
> M> > replies on the below email during a week. I'd really appreciate
> M> > testing on different platforms. Any takers?
> M> OK, it works on an Raspberry pi running r269231 with your patch.
> M> The only suspicious thing I observed was that the number of
> M> 'requests for I/O initiated by sendfile' in netstat -m doesn't
> M> always increase. I would expect that. However, I'm not sure if
> M> this is ARM related (I would not think so) or is related to your
> M> patch at all.
> 
> Thanks a lot, Michael!
> 
> The observation on number of I/Os is absolutely okay, since VM
> cashes pages.

Hi Gleb,

I tested your patch on FreeBSD/arm (OpenBlocks AX3), it seems to be working
fine.

> -- 
> Totus tuus, Glebius.

	Kevin