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Subject: Re: How FREEBSD deals with request for continuous physical pages
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In message: <20050603091519.31175.qmail@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
            Bao Zhao <baozhaolinuxer@yahoo.com> writes:
:   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.

contigmalloc()

Warner