Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 22:54:13 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Ustimenko Semen <semen@iclub.nsu.ru> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are mbufs aligned or bounded on something? Message-ID: <199803060654.WAA24313@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Mar 1998 10:37:28 %2B0600." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306102709.4977A-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
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>By the way: if i need aligned memory, should i use contigmalloc(), or >better to use malloc, and align block by hands? All memory returned by malloc() is guaranteed to be power of two aligned and won't span a page boundry if <= a page in size; there are many places in the kernel that rely on this. If you need a large chunk of memory that must be physically contiguous, then use contigmalloc(). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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