Re: panic in uma_startup for many-core amd64 system

From: Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni.trematerra_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:16:14 +0100
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 01/11/2010 19:09 Giovanni Trematerra said the following:
>> Here the patch that was in my mind.
>> The patch doesn't implement dynamic slab size just allow
>> to have a multipage slab to back uma_zone objects.
>> I'm going to work more on the topic "dynamic slab size" soon.
>> I tested the patch on qemu with -smp 32.
>> I'm looking for real hw to test the patch on.
>
> Having only skimmed the patch I have a question - is this only used for internal
> zones?  "Application" zones with large items still use off-page slabs?
>

Yes, it is used only for internal zones. Other zones will go off-page as usual.

--
Giovanni Trematerra
Received on Tue Nov 02 2010 - 12:16:17 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:08 UTC