cvs commit: src/sys/sys buf.h

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Nov 4 02:36:36 PST 2004


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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