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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:40:48 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
Subject:   Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmomvFQ%2B2%2BaKu4Eft1tX=OptVBAWjBqB99pD48TJKXex=ag@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2CB113BD-D223-4BCF-AAB8-F3D3FA962168@mu.org>
References:  <20121112003215.238950@gmx.com> <2CB113BD-D223-4BCF-AAB8-F3D3FA962168@mu.org>

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On 11 November 2012 20:24, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:
> I think very few of the m_nowaits actually need the reserve behavior. We should probably switch away from it digging that deep by default and introduce a flag and/or a per thread flag to set the behavior.

There's already a perfectly fine flag - M_WAITOK. Just don't hold any
locks, right? :)


Adrian



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