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Date:      Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:36:34 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Leroy van Logchem <leroy.vanlogchem@wldelft.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys buf.h 
Message-ID:  <41517.1099564594@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:32:18 %2B0100." <418A0532.7020902@wldelft.nl> 

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In message <418A0532.7020902@wldelft.nl>, Leroy van Logchem writes:
>Hi Poul,
>
>These questions might not be related but I'll ask anyway.
>(I'am not very technical nor expect on kernel design so bare with me please)

BIO buffers has nothing to do with mbufs.

BIO buffers are for disk I/O
mbufs are for network traffic.

I'm not up to date on the mbuf allocation stuff, sorry.

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