Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys buf.h

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:36:34 +0100
In message <418A0532.7020902_at_wldelft.nl>, Leroy van Logchem writes:
>Hi Poul,
>
>These questions might not be related but I'll ask anyway.
>(I'am not very technical nor expect on kernel design so bare with me please)

BIO buffers has nothing to do with mbufs.

BIO buffers are for disk I/O
mbufs are for network traffic.

I'm not up to date on the mbuf allocation stuff, sorry.

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