Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:15:23 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/25] NTFS: Allow highmem kmalloc() in ntfs_malloc_nofs() and add _nofail() version. |
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Also note I only use the ntfs_malloc_nofs() wrapper if I have to. If I > know how much I am allocating or at least know that the maximum is quite > small, I use kmalloc() directly. It is pretty much only for the runlist > allocations that I use the wrapper as the runlist is typically small but > for fragmented files it can grow huge. I have seen runlists consuming > over 256kiB of ram, without vmalloc that would be a real problem...
So things like
rl = ntfs_malloc_nofs(rlsize = PAGE_SIZE);
should be changed to kmalloc(), right?
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