Re: Is pool_cache_init limited to providing only one page worth of storage?

Chuck Silvers <[email protected]> writes:

> I guess your kernel was built with DIAGNOSTIC disabled?  there's an assertion
> in pool_init() that you would have hit that would have made the problem more obvious:
>
> 	KASSERTMSG((prsize <= palloc->pa_pagesz),
> 	    "%s: [%s] pool item size (%zu) larger than page size (%u)",
> 	    __func__, wchan, prsize, palloc->pa_pagesz);

Wow, thanks for the explanation.

After it settles out if the different-IPL case can work, it would be
good to

  - update the man page

  - have pool_cache_init fail if what's passed will not work correctly,
    even if DIAGNOSTIC is not enabled