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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:39:00 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, vishwanath pargaonkar <vishubp@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cluster size
Message-ID:  <20010726123900.E26571@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010726133617.B33517@technokratis.com>; from bmilekic@technokratis.com on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:36:17PM -0400
References:  <20010725140737.A25132@technokratis.com> <Pine.SOL.4.21.0107251416550.21505-100000@opal> <20010725143649.A25300@technokratis.com> <3B6050D1.9DCCD23@mindspring.com> <20010726133617.B33517@technokratis.com>

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* Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> [010726 12:32] wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:18:09AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > The real reason behind all this is to make the input and output
> > routines symmetric, since mbuf's can be allocated at interrupt,
> > and clusters can't (or couldn't, last time I looked at 4.3).
> 
> 	They can. Whether they are or not I'm not sure.

Er, wouldn't that be the only way for cards to refil thier DMA
recieve buffers?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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