Re: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:38:01PM -0700, David McDaniel (damcdani) wrote: Thanks Jonathon. Your description of the lifecycle of a buffer made perfect sense. That kind of info would help if it got into the man page. I'll work on getting the manpage updated. I'm still not sure I understand

Re: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:46:40PM -0700, David McDaniel wrote: This might be better suited to another board, but if so I dont know which one. In any case the dialog might be valuable to the community at large. To wit: I dont fully grasp the semantics of umem_cache_alloc, et al. Some use

Re: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-22 Thread Al Hopper
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Jonathan Adams wrote: snip Not a problem; if you have any suggestions on how to make the manpage more clear, I'll be happy to get it changed. Hi Jonathan, What's not clear to me is when to use or avoid using it. I understand the concepts of the slab allocator

RE: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-22 Thread David McDaniel \(damcdani\)
McDaniel (damcdani) Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:46:40PM -0700, David McDaniel wrote: This might be better suited to another board, but if so I dont know which one. In any case the dialog might be valuable

[osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-17 Thread David McDaniel
This might be better suited to another board, but if so I dont know which one. In any case the dialog might be valuable to the community at large. To wit: I dont fully grasp the semantics of umem_cache_alloc, et al. Some use cases or examples would really help. A few of the obscure (to me)