From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 23:29:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AD91065672 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:29:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@ddteam.net) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904ED8FC0A for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wern13 with SMTP id n13so347898wer.13 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:29:45 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=9alOSv6XdtZ8f1sC/C4DFrO9XwMPvJ3FKlG4xxSvjqo=; b=I5EA4dkEKka35jz7MuV42gESOhLHGkWYL9EClqHwDQBJY6JsF5OEQT3donWk6ITswk 5BPaNEFjroePVt2srisCtagVpznmYDhmV/HAHXdqYtM3naf3V6/ekBOg8B4+cBxTT6aY Hw6jS0tnOcg24ArB+rccXMQM/YW6KZuJexW5a+x5NC/wzTGLawRln/qVw3/df8ewQxQL QtdZc7l4XaOnH0gnluTbFHNHjl8J/uEyuHwOQvwx0yik5TmAL9fay28qV3eDRkuVus3m 1TIHA57EW96nSGo/9dcr1tlWYsbV7hHfYoMWk0SLzzJwmdIFDVgaoMDu6U6IUxWf+Jc2 7kIw== Received: by 10.180.102.231 with SMTP id fr7mr15621186wib.10.1331422185462; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:29:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from rnote.ddteam.net (9-52-133-95.pool.ukrtel.net. [95.133.52.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gp8sm18885509wib.5.2012.03.10.15.29.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:29:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 01:29:00 +0200 From: Aleksandr Rybalko To: Juli Mallett Message-Id: <20120311012900.e24d3199.ray@ddteam.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20120310151128.647d4a18.ray@ddteam.net> <20120311002908.58ea1513.ray@ddteam.net> <20120311010755.ca51d8d0.ray@ddteam.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlrjBZmyBTBAphTp9hlxLp1OaQd8UndZXeDomdILaID/TwqXP50JGT3QjHln8woTyc4xej4 Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for using NFS root with if_arge X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:29:47 -0000 On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:12:28 -0800 Juli Mallett wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 15:07, Aleksandr Rybalko > wrote: > > Will test it with other zrouter guys, and then commit if you don't > > do that faster :) > > I'd rather you commit it as I don't know about the rest of the patch > myself. I still think freeing the descriptor contents in arge_stop() > and doing the init stuff in init would be a better long-term fix, but > I can live with this for now :) if_arge frequently used in boxes with 32mb and even sometime 16mb of ram, so once we will free it we can lost network until reboot :) (if I understand it correct) So generally you are right, but small systems want to hold resources required for basic operations. WBW -- Aleksandr Rybalko