Re: contigmalloc(9) rewrite

2004-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:57:09PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: The patch, which applies to 5-CURRENT, can be found here: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/contigmalloc2.patch The default is to use the old contigmalloc(). You can set the sysctl or loader tunable

Re: contigmalloc(9) rewrite

2004-06-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:51:15PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:57:09PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: The patch, which applies to 5-CURRENT, can be found here: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/contigmalloc2.patch The default is to use the

contigmalloc(9) rewrite

2004-06-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
As I still couldn't get the reliability I wanted with contigmalloc(9) (due to fundamental brokenness), I decided to do a reimplementation of it that provides much more reliability and quite a bit less ugly churn of the presently-allocated pageable memory. In the new version, allocations start at