cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_kern.c

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> While I think an extra malloc option to get this behaviour is
> reasonable, I think this is another situation where it would be better
> to wire the user buffer and copy the data directly to user space.
> Approximately the same amount of memory will be tied up servicing the
> request in either case.

No, the issue in pseudofs is that it needs a buffer of size offset +
resid rather than just resid.  There is a way to get around this
though, by hack^H^H^H^Hextending the sbuf(9) API.

DES
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