On Saturday 19 June 2010 11:48:22 am Jaakko Heinonen wrote: > > Hi, > > I wrote a patch to extend the kernel unit number allocator for > allocating specific unit numbers. The patch adds a new function > alloc_unr_specific() which returns the requested unit number if it is > free and -1 if the number is already allocated or out of the range. > Unlike alloc_unr(), alloc_unr_specific() may allocate memory and thus > sleep. > > The patch is here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/alloc_unr_specific.diff > > I think that this functionality has been requested by some people. > Reviews/comments? > > As an example here is md(4) converted to use > alloc_unr() / alloc_unr_specific(): > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/md-alloc_unr.diff
This sounds useful to me. Perhaps ask p...@? -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
