Re: Kernel memory allocation oddities in NetBSD-10.99.12

Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Those are great questions.  There are some papers about pool and pool
cache.   There are hiwat/lowat calls in pool_cache(9).

pages can only be returned if there are no allocated objects in the
page.

There is complexity about per-cpu pages, using more RAM for lower
multiprocessor contention.
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