Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:29:34 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm uma_core.c Message-ID: <20030922212934.392A72A7EA@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030920164235.GM981@locore.ca>
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Jake Burkholder wrote:
> Apparently, On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:53:33AM -0700,
> Jeff Roberson said words to the effect of;
>
> > jeff 2003/09/19 01:53:33 PDT
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sys/vm uma_core.c
> > Log:
> > - Move the logic for dealing with the uma_boot_pages cache into the
> > page_alloc() function from the slab_zalloc() function. This allows us
> > to unconditionally call uz_allocf().
> > - In page_alloc() cleanup the boot_pages logic some. Previously memory
from
> > this cache that was not used by the time the system started was left i
n
> > the cache and never used. Typically this wasn't more than a few pages
,
> > but now we will use this cache so long as memory is available.
>
> This doesn't take UMA_MD_SMALL_ALLOC into account. uma_small_alloc doesn't
> know about the boot pages so it wanders into the vm system too early.
Has there been any followup on this that I've missed? Do we need to update
the MD functions to deal with boot pages or is something better in the
pipeline?
Cheers,
-Peter
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