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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:26:40 -0600
From:      Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        StevenSears <Steven.Sears@netapp.com>, alc@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Sushanth Rai <sushanth_rai@yahoo.com>, pho@freebsd.org, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof
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On 11/12/2012 5:24 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> .. wait, so what exactly would the difference be between M_NOWAIT and M_WAITOK?

Whether or not the allocation can sleep until memory becomes available.




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