Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [BLOCK] bh: Ensure bh fits within a page | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:35:13 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:10 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > If you set the alignment for ext3 the same as the size (ie 1024, 2048, > > 4096 for the above respectively) then wouldn't that guarantee not > > straddling a page? > > Yes. But then that number must always be a fraction of pagesize. >
understood, as is 1024, 2048, and 4096 are. Well, if pagesize is 4096 is 4096 really a fraction of 4096? :)
Also, isn't all sizes for kmalloc that are under pagesize a fraction of the page size? Or more correctly, a power of 2?
-- Steve
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