From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 15 13:52:21 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B0237B400; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cleitus.hosting.swbell.net (cleitus.hosting.swbell.net [216.100.99.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5DEA43E58; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alc@imimic.com) Received: from imimic.com (adsl-216-63-78-17.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [216.63.78.17]) by cleitus.hosting.swbell.net id QAA26947; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:52:03 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <3D3335F3.49F9D9FC@imimic.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:52:03 -0500 From: "Alan L. Cox" Organization: iMimic Networking, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: John Baldwin , Alan Cox , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha pmap.c src/sys/vm vm_page.c References: <20020715202932.17F2C3811@overcee.wemm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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