svn commit: r242847 - in head/sys: i386/include kern

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 17:51:29 UTC 2012


On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On 10 November 2012 12:04, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
> >> Sure, if you'd like you can help me craft that comment now?
> >
> > I think this is short and clear:
> > ===
> > Limit the amount of kernel address space used to a fixed cap.
> > 384 is an arbitrarily chosen value that leaves 270 MB of KVA available
> > of the 2 MB total. On systems with large amount of memory reduce the
> > the slope of the function in order to avoiding exhausting KVA.
> > ===
>
> That's actually completely 100% incorrect...
>

    Would it be a good idea to reference the other commit ref. numbers done
by dillon@ in the commit message, or would this be redundant?
Thanks!
-Garrett


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