Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> writes:
> If we have effective hard limit support in the pool code, is there
> still a good reason to put mbufs in a separate map on some platforms?

allocation efficiency (vs. map fragmentation, etc.)?  even if you
don't them in your own map, you might still need wired hard limits
because it might not be possible to grow kernel_map.


> What makes the alpha and mips special?

architecture provides a direct-mapped segment.


cgd
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