Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:18:51 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, <net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting rid of maxsockets. Message-ID: <20020322051526.W370-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20020321234453.A96524@unixdaemons.com>
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Bosko Milekic wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:35:52PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > > > We have talked about it quite a bit. I'd love to remove the hard limit on > > mbufs. I may do this soon, but I have other uma related work that will > > probably come before it. > > I'm not so sure I like this idea. What would be better (and perhaps > what you meant) is: "be able to expand the size of the mbuf allocation > `pool' at runtime." In any case, we should not jump to quick > conclusions with all data structures right away. Instead, I propose > that we first glue-in mbuf allocations to UMA (not too difficult, given > that UMA provides an allocation routine stub). If this is done properly > [without macro-performance loss] then it should be rather trivial to > bring in new functionality. > > -- > Bosko Milekic Expanding is good, contracting is better. :) Whatever rate you want to do the switchover at would be best; I don't see any urgent need to rush the work. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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