Subject: Re: m_get(), MGET(), and MGETHDR() with M_WAIT
To: Thorsten Lockert <tholo@SigmaSoft.COM>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/1996 19:57:09
Reviewing my mail on this topic, i noticed that Thorsten Lockert said:
> [ ... ] However, perhaps some of
> the cases that now use _MWAIT and do check should be changed to M_NOWAIT?
Why fail more requests than necessary?
M_NOWAIT exists solely so that low-kernel code can use the standard
mbuf allocation routines. I see no reason that it should be used by
high-kernel code.
chris