Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:23:10 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware |
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:35:56PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote: > Ummm... ok? But with only a simple flag, how do you know *which* mempool > you're trying to use? What if you want to use a mempool for a non-slab > allocation?
Are there any? A quick poke around has only found a couple of places that use kzalloc(), which is still quite effectively a slab allocation. There seems to be just one page user, the dm-crypt driver, which could be served by a reservation scheme.
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