Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:04:10 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: kamal kc <kamal_ckk@yahoo.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malloc() in kernel and increasing mbuf and cluster size Message-ID: <200510172204.11162.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20051017114901.32412.qmail@web35711.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051017114901.32412.qmail@web35711.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart2003707.nlPXxie13S Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:19, kamal kc wrote: > void * > malloc(size, type, flags) > unsigned long size; > struct malloc_type *type; > int flags; > > i understand the size and flags but what shall i > do with the malloc_type. man 9 malloc It is used to do basic sanity checking and for statistics. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2003707.nlPXxie13S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDU5pD5ZPcIHs/zowRAvpWAKCW3QGmJhQRgjvzEJ0UAdM6R0dlzACfZx4v 4exRzp88/K58i47YpCTUJ9o= =9elw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2003707.nlPXxie13S--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200510172204.11162.doconnor>