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From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: remind me again, why is MAXPHYS only 128k ? 
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    Another possibility for physio would be to MALLOC the pages
    array at the very top level of the syscall and pass it down
    through for use by lower layers.  At the very top level,
    before anything is locked, the MALLOC can block safely.

					-Matt

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