How FREEBSD deals with request for continuous physical pages

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Jun 4 09:44:53 PDT 2005


In message: <20050603091519.31175.qmail at web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
            Bao Zhao <baozhaolinuxer at yahoo.com> writes:
:   Linux use buddy allocator.but I find it seems that
: FREEBSD uses single page linked list. but SLAB and
: some drivers need continuous physical pages, so I
: wonder how FREEBSD solved this problem.

contigmalloc()

Warner


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