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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:40:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c
Message-ID:  <200110152140.f9FLeOl32078@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011015153606.F59854@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <xzpelo4r90f.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200110152105.aa38680@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20011015153606.F59854@elvis.mu.org>

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<<On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:36:06 -0500, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> said:

> No, the zone allocator sucks, one memory is pinned for a zone it
> can not be reused.

Actually, that is a good and intentional feature.  (See all the papers
on TSM.)  That doesn't necessarily mean that it's useful or
appropriate for *nodes, though.

-GAWollman


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