On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:12:41AM -0800, Neel Natu wrote: > Hi Konstantin, > > Sounds fine. I can bump it up to 8 pages. > > Also, wrt your comment about scaling this number based on available > memory, I wonder if it makes sense to optimize for 16KB of additional > space. If it boots on 128MB as is, I am completely fine with the existing patch (after slack increase) as well.
> > I would much rather work with you and Alan to fix pmap_growkernel() so > we don't need to care about this slack in the first place :-) Sure, if you consider this important enough. I do agree with mdf that having this happen without any user intervention is good. But having just a tunable for the slack might be much less labor-intensive and good enough.
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