Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:52:03 -0500 From: "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha pmap.c src/sys/vm vm_page.c Message-ID: <3D3335F3.49F9D9FC@imimic.com> References: <20020715202932.17F2C3811@overcee.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > > "Alan L. Cox" wrote: > > > P.S. The scattered placement of wired pages in the physical memory is > > the chief reason why large contigmalloc()s fail on long-running > > systems. This flag could be used to help address that. > > By the way, if you fix this particular wart, you will owed lots of > beer/pizza/free lunch/etc when we catch up with you. :-) As a side effect, the superpages support that we've developed at Rice solves this problem. I'm hoping that we'll integrate the superpages support before the end of the year. Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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