Re: NO_KMEM_MAP kernel config option added (temporaty)

[Julian Elischer <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I have added a NO_KMEM_MAP kernel configuration option and would
>     appreciate it if people could test with it.
>
>     This option removes kmem_map from DragonFly and adds some warning 
>     printfs if memory is allocated from a FAST interrupt or IPIQ function.
>
>     Removing kmem_map appears to be utterly trivial.  Replacing malloc()
>     with the slab allocator also looks like it is going to be fairly easy,
>     and replacing zalloc with the slab allocator also looks like it is 
>     going to be fairly straight forward once proc, pcb, and whatever else
>     depends on type-stable storage is dealt with.


what is your opinion of 'uma' allocator in FreeBSD.
(i.e. your reasons to not just use  that..)

> 						-Matt