[PATCH] Fix for using NFS root with if_arge
Aleksandr Rybalko
ray at ddteam.net
Sat Mar 10 23:29:47 UTC 2012
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:12:28 -0800
Juli Mallett <jmallett at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 15:07, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net>
> wrote:
> > Will test it with other zrouter guys, and then commit if you don't
> > do that faster :)
>
> I'd rather you commit it as I don't know about the rest of the patch
> myself. I still think freeing the descriptor contents in arge_stop()
> and doing the init stuff in init would be a better long-term fix, but
> I can live with this for now :)
if_arge frequently used in boxes with 32mb and even sometime 16mb of
ram, so once we will free it we can lost network until reboot :) (if I
understand it correct)
So generally you are right, but small systems want to hold resources
required for basic operations.
WBW
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Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net>
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