Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:36:49 -0400 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, vishwanath pargaonkar <vishubp@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cluster size Message-ID: <20010725143649.A25300@technokratis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0107251416550.21505-100000@opal>; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:17:38PM -0400 References: <20010725140737.A25132@technokratis.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0107251416550.21505-100000@opal>
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:17:38PM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I see. It has something to do with the power-of-two allocator we are > using inside the kernel. No, it has nothing to do with the power-of-two allocation strategy used in some cases inside the kernel. 2K is just the most convenient size for a cluster as it fits the maximum MTU size while at the same time fitting nicely into a page, reducing allocation complexity. > -Zhihui -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@technokratis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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