Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof

2012-11-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I think very few of the m_nowaits actually need the reserve behavior. We should probably switch away from it digging that deep by default and introduce a flag and/or a per thread flag to set the behavior. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:32 PM, "Dieter BSD" wrote: > Alan writes: >>

Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof

2012-11-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11 November 2012 13:40, Alan Cox wrote: > > Agreed. Once upon time, before SMPng, M_NOWAIT was rarely used. It was > well understand that it should only be used by interrupt handlers. > > The trouble is that M_NOWAIT conflates two orthogonal things. The obvious > being that the allocation s

Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof

2012-11-11 Thread Dieter BSD
Alan writes: > In conclusion, I think it's time that we change M_NOWAIT so that it doesn't > dig any deeper into the cache/free page queues than M_WAITOK does and > reintroduce a M_USE_RESERVE-like flag that says dig deep into the > cache/free page queues.  The trouble is that we then need to ident

Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof

2012-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:10:04PM +, Sears, Steven wrote: > > I have a memory subsystem design question that I'm hoping someone can > answer. > > > > I've been looking at a machine that is completely out of memory, as in > > > > v

Re: FreeBSD on RaspberryPi

2012-11-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11 November 2012 12:39, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > At the moment HDMI output works only in a sense of video output for simple > frame buffer. I'm trying to get GPU support ported but not sure how much time > it will take. Eventually we'd like to get audio support too. How's the general, no

Re: FreeBSD on RaspberryPi

2012-11-11 Thread Oleksandr Tymoshenko
On 2012-11-09, at 2:32 PM, Sami Halabi wrote: > Hi, > are there any plans to do images that support the hdmi output ? what about > analog sound vs the hdmi? > can the images be taken to the gui stage , ie xbmc or any other multimedia > screen ? At the moment HDMI output works only in a sense o