Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:50:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, vishwanath pargaonkar <vishubp@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cluster size Message-ID: <3B605858.228B7DAF@mindspring.com> 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 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. FWIW: I meant as in "in normal practice", not as in "impossible!". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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