Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:35:35 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SLAB - have index_of bug at compile time. |
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Steven wrote:
>So I'm going through ever line of code and examining it >thoroughly, when I find something that could be improved > Try to find a kfree implementation that doesn't need virt_to_page(). This is a big restriction of the current implementation: It's in the hot path, but the operation is only fast on simple systems, not on numa systems without a big memory map. And it makes it impossible to use vmalloc memory as the basis for slabs, or to use slab for io memory.
-- Manfred
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