4mb PAGES for mbuf clusters

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Jul 12 23:08:33 PDT 2007


    It's not a bad idea and tests done on FreeBSD have shown a
    significant improvement in performance for certain workloads,
    but it's fairly difficult to manage memory in 4MB chunks
    and fragmentation will screw it up on machines with long uptimes,
    so unless we rewrite a whole lot of subsystems I don't think we
    can do better then a hack.  For the record, I don't like what FreeBSD
    did.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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