From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 19:11:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21095 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21089 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA21306; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:40:37 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199808130210.LAA21306@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Emmanuel Duros cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Allocating memory in a network device driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:22:54 +0200." <199808122122.XAA03579@chouette.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:40:37 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In fact I have not found much documentation on the malloc function used > in device driver. Can anyone point me to some ? I wonder what the > M_DEVBUF, M_NOWAIT,... parameters are exactly for. There exists a manpage for the kernel malloc under -current in section 9. (It basically repeats what Archie said :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message