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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:17:23 +0200
From: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
To: Bao Zhao <baozhaolinuxer@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: How FREEBSD deals with request for continuous physical pages
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:15:19AM -0700, Bao Zhao wrote:
>   Linux use buddy allocator.but I find it seems that
> FREEBSD uses single page linked list. but SLAB and
> some drivers need continuous physical pages, so I
> wonder how FREEBSD solved this problem.

man contigmalloc