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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:52:03 -0500
From:      "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha pmap.c src/sys/vm vm_page.c
Message-ID:  <3D3335F3.49F9D9FC@imimic.com>
References:  <20020715202932.17F2C3811@overcee.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> "Alan L. Cox" wrote:
> 
> > P.S. The scattered placement of wired pages in the physical memory is
> > the chief reason why large contigmalloc()s fail on long-running
> > systems.  This flag could be used to help address that.
> 
> By the way, if you fix this particular wart, you will owed lots of
> beer/pizza/free lunch/etc when we catch up with you. :-)

As a side effect, the superpages support that we've developed at Rice
solves this problem.  I'm hoping that we'll integrate the superpages
support before the end of the year.

Alan

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