From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 5 21:12:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08546 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 21:12:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA08524; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 21:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA10010; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:12:02 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199702060512.AAA10010@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Contigious (spelling?) allocation in kernel To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:12:02 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Simon Shapiro" at Feb 5, 97 07:33:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Take a look at contigmalloc() or vm_page_alloc_contig() as defined in /sys/vm/vm_page.c. These are almost guaranteed NOT to work after the system is fully up. John