On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:01:52AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I don't think this was thought out enough, there are times when you > would want to limit the total memory allocated to mbufs and avoid > deadlocks in low memory situations. > > Even the old allocator could have been trivially modified to block > forever upon exhaustion of the mbuf arena. > > The reason why the old allocator was not "fixed" to block forever > was to allow for recovery from low memory deadlocks. > > A lot of work went into making the system safe in the face of these > deadlocks and removing it "to clean up" due to a deficiency with > the current allocator and without understanding why it was there > in the first place is a mistake. > > This whole thing needs to be backed out. > Are you (or anyone else you know) planning to work on adding real support for M_TRYWAIT?
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
