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Subject: vm_page_alloc_contig again 
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 16:00:04 PDT
From: Anne Hutton <hutton@ISI.EDU>
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Hi,

I was hoping for a response from someone on the core team about the 
functionality of vm_page_alloc_contig...does it do what it is supposed to do 
in version 3.0? 

One of the last emails I see on it in the hackers archive suggest it doesn't 
work as intended - see the included email. The comments in cvsweb on vm 
revisions also seem unclear as to the status of vm_page_contig_alloc. 


Anne

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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 1997 00:12:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Sender:    owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Contigious (spelling?) allocation in kernel

Take a look at contigmalloc() or vm_page_alloc_contig()
as defined in /sys/vm/vm_page.c.  These are almost
guaranteed NOT to work after the system is fully up.

John


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