Big physically contiguous mbuf clusters

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Wed Jan 29 22:26:34 UTC 2014


<<On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:21:21 -0800, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> said:

> For servers with lots of memory we could then keep these around and
> only dip into them for temporary allocations (eg not VM pages that may
> be held for some unknown amount of time.)

mbufs may also be held for some unknown amout of time, so I don't
think that helps at all.

-GAWollman



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