Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 11:05:00 -0500 From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com> To: davidg@root.com Cc: brian@mediacity.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), et-users@netrail.net, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continued MBUF problem with ET V.35 card Message-ID: <199605091605.LAA24496@sierra.zyzzyva.com> In-Reply-To: davidg's message of Thu, 09 May 1996 05:18:15 -0700. <199605091218.FAA02021@Root.COM>
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> >> Hit Dennis on the head and get him to admit that it's his drivers 8) > > > >Some months ago, I worked with Dennis to track down the mbuf leak > >problem. The leak was in FreeBSD code, not his driver. > > Yes, and for the record this was caused by a small change to the MGET/MFREE > macros. We used to have a private pool of mbufs to optimize performance, but > this was found to conflict with the allocation-type tracking in malloc() and > lead to system instabilities. By reverting the macros back to their originals, > the code in Dennis's driver that allocated and freed mbufs was still sticking > them in this private pool - one the rest of the system didn't know about, and > thus the "leak". > There have been no changes to the mbuf allocation code since then. > > -DG Could someone help me with version numbers in these changes? I'm finding that the problem exists in 2.1.0 and -stable. What version was changed? What version was reverted? In which branch is this fixed? This discussion is very helpful. Please expand.help
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