Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:48:05 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: hashtables allocated with __get_free_pages() |
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Hi,
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:16:04 -0700, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:
> On some of the systems I've tested the 2.3.9 code on, the page cache > hash table is 1MB or 2MB in size. How do you suggest that I allocate > this memory whose size is dynamic based upon available memory and > needs to be sized after the free page pools are setup?
I believe the whole argument is over whether or not you have to wait until after the free pool setup at all. You certainly have enough information to do dynamic sizing before that point, and you don't need a large kmalloc there at all to get good tlb performance.
--Stephen
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