On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:56:52AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: S> > are you going to convert mbuf tag allocator to UMA? Now S> > tags are allocated with malloc(). AFAIK, tags are used heavily in pf, S> > and forthcoming ALTQ. Moving to UMA should affect their performance S> > positively. S> S> You probably meant you wanted to use a UMA zone. m_tag's can already be
Exactly. What about using its own UMA zone for each m_tag consumer: pf, ALTQ, divert, vlan? Each module allocates its zone on startup, and later a reference to this zone is passed to m_tag_alloc(). S> allocated using this mechanism. I did it once for vlan tags but botched it S> (didn't handle module references properly) so backed it. But there's no S> reason someone cannot redo it or convert other heavily used fixed size tags S> to use a zone. Have you saved your efforts? May I look at them? -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
