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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: mbuma: network buffers & UMA
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:20:29PM -0500, Bosko Milekic wrote:

> The post below has received exactly zero attention on the
> freebsd-current mailing list.  I'm assuming this is because there are
> other exciting threads going on there right now, such as style debates
> and lovely feature requests. :-)
> 
> I would like to commit this RSN.  I need feedback from the Release
> Engineering people on how close we are to a RELEASE and if it's OK for
> me to break netstat -m stats for a few weeks or, if not, what the
> appropriate course of action is.

I'm unable to test this right now, but I like the idea of using UMA
for mbuf allocations. I also like the keg allocator idea - it will be
useful in quite a few other places.


Tim