From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 30 00:47:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28412 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 00:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com (schizo.dk.tfs.com [195.8.133.123] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28383 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 00:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.19]) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA14276; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 09:45:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA00367; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:54:21 +0200 (CEST) To: Nate Williams cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VFS patch (was Re: Another SNAPshot CD of 3.0 coming up.. ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:13:09 MDT." <199708291513.JAA08860@rocky.mt.sri.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:54:20 +0200 Message-ID: <365.872873660@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199708291513.JAA08860@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >> I have just sent the following vfs patch out for review.... > >You did a great job of mentioning what functionality this patch >provides, but what 'purpose' does this patch provide? (ie; fix a vnode >leak when the system decides that it can't hold it anymore, etc...) It hopefully improves the recycling of vnodes, one particular aspect is to not have "not-wanted-for-recycling" vnodes on the freelist in the first place. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."