Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius
<rmind%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> "Masao Uebayashi" <uebayasi%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> Module Name:  src
>> Committed By: uebayasi
>> Date:         Sat Jul 30 05:24:17 UTC 2011
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>       src/sys/kern: kern_softint.c
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Use kmem(9) to allocate per-cpu softint context.  No functional changes.
>>
>
> Why?  The allocation is page-sized, persistent and should preferably be
> on page-boundary.

My understanding is that uvm_km(9) is only used when allocation "must"
be page-aligned.  But I may be wrong.