Re: 4mb PAGES for mbuf clusters

["km b" <kmb810@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/13/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>     It's not a bad idea and tests done on FreeBSD have shown a
>     significant improvement in performance for certain workloads,
>     but it's fairly difficult to manage memory in 4MB chunks
>     and fragmentation will screw it up on machines with long uptimes,
>     so unless we rewrite a whole lot of subsystems I don't think we
>     can do better then a hack.  For the record, I don't like what FreeBSD
>     did.

Would you be able to recall what FreeBSD did? I couldn't find anything
on mail archives. If it's worth I'll give it a try for private use
even though it's a hack.

Cheers
kmb


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