4mb PAGES for mbuf clusters

km b kmb810 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 02:49:02 PDT 2007


On 7/12/07, Karl Sjödahl - dunceor <dunceor at gmail.com> wrote:
"However, I am wondering whether the same
tuning can be applied to other parts of the kernel? e.g, can't we map
mbuf clusters to 4MB MMU pages instead of 4K pages to improve the
performance under heavy network load?"  <-- That might be the question?
that is the question.

cheers
kmb
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