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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:26:33 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Big physically contiguous mbuf clusters
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<<On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:21:21 -0800, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> said:

> For servers with lots of memory we could then keep these around and
> only dip into them for temporary allocations (eg not VM pages that may
> be held for some unknown amount of time.)

mbufs may also be held for some unknown amout of time, so I don't
think that helps at all.

-GAWollman




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