From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 10:49:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104F637B406 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:49:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.129.59.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.129.59]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA24754; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B605858.228B7DAF@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:50:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Zhihui Zhang , vishwanath pargaonkar , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cluster size References: <20010725140737.A25132@technokratis.com> <20010725143649.A25300@technokratis.com> <3B6050D1.9DCCD23@mindspring.com> <20010726133617.B33517@technokratis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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