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
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
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Jonathan Adams wrote:
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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
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
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)