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Re: pool guard




> On Sep 8, 2019, at 4:48 PM, Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> "Fixing" this entails first having a UVM that can scale up to and work
> reasonably well with such gigantic amounts of RAM, which is far from being the
> case currently. We will need to have SMP, NUMA, large pages, and in short, we
> will likely have to rewrite UVM entirely.

Hence "at some point".  I am under no illusions that it won't be a large amount of work.  At the very least, document the limitation so it's easy to find later.

-- thorpej



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