Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:16:11 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: hash table sizes |
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Hi,
> Some architectures (IA64, for example) dont have severe limitations on > usage of vmalloc space. Would it make sense to use vmalloc on these > architectures. Even if the max size of the structures being allocated > is limited to an acceptible size, it still concentrates the memory on > a single node.
The kernel region on many architectures is mapped with large pages, we would lose that by going to vmalloc.
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