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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:49:11 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>
Cc:        StevenSears <Steven.Sears@netapp.com>, alc@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Sushanth Rai <sushanth_rai@yahoo.com>, pho@freebsd.org, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof
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On 12 November 2012 15:26, Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu> wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 5:24 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>> .. wait, so what exactly would the difference be between M_NOWAIT and
>> M_WAITOK?
>
>
> Whether or not the allocation can sleep until memory becomes available.

Ok, so we're still maintaining that particular behaviour. Cool.



Adrian


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