Re: Dropping mb_map

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes:

>Hi all,
>attached is a patch to rework the mbuf cluster limit.

>If NMBCLUSTERS is set, it is placing another limit. i386 and ARM get an
>additional limit of 64MB in clusters, due to the small KVA size.

64MB is still larger than before, isn't it?


>Third, it uses 1/16 of the physical memory in clusters or 1024 as
>default value. If NMBCLUSTERS is set, it is used directly. The default
>value should be as large as the old default for most sane systems.

What are the insane systems?


>Comments?

Great thing. It will be interesting to see what hidden memory problems
in the kernel map will show up now :)

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