cvs commit: src/sys/sys malloc.h src/sys/kern kern_malloc.c src/sys/vm vm_contig.c vm_page.h

Brian Fundakowski Feldman green at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 19 03:39:24 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 02:11:47AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:00:27AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > This is a pretty darn big change to something that is so vital to so 
> > many drivers (not including busdma, which means that this touches nearly
> > every driver).  Who reviewed this?  Was it discussed on a public mailing
> > list?  What kind of testing was done for it?  If you can't answer these
> > questions then I'm not terribly thrilled.
> > 
> 
> I reviewed an earlier version of this and gave Brian some feedback.
> 
> It is important to note that he added the new implementation side-by-side
> with the old. By default, the old implementation is still used.  So, I
> wouldn't be too concerned.

Aye, I didn't feel totally comfortable saying "Reviewed by:" since that
was a while ago, but between alc and hmp who has been overhauling the
contigmalloc() implementation in DFBSD there wasn't any concern that I
know I hadn't addressed (and Dillon ignored my solicitation).

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