On 2012/05/06 21:34, Brad Smith wrote: > I have resurrected the old jumbo allocator to MCLGETI conversion diff > that was reverted with rev 1.152. The commit did not indicate why that > was so. I updated it to -current and have tested it a fair bit on amd64 > with a SysKonnect GEnesis board using jumbos and have not found any issues > so far. Theo or Stuart can you comment on why this was reverted?
Forwarded you some mails offlist, TL;DR version is it dies under heavy packet load. Would be nice to have this back as the jumbo allocator uses a huge wodge of kvm. Not sure if I have a good machine for testing it any more.
