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Re: Too small mbuf clusters



On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:26:32AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > MCLBYTES < MINCLSIZE doesn't work.
> 
> Not trying to do that. What I mean is: allocate a full cluster even if
> the data is < MINCLSIZE. I know this wastes some space, and it would
> be used in a special case only that is in the process of being reworked
> better anyway (so I do not want to waste too much cycles right now).

You can always allocate a cluster instead of a regular mbuf, it's just
more likely that you run out of clusters than out of regular mbufs.

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