Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:45:53 +0200 | | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/29] mm: kmem_cache_objs_to_pages() |
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Hi Peter,
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:47 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > So how does this work? You ask the slab allocator how many pages you > > need for a given number of objects and then those pages are available > > to it via the page allocator? Can other users also dip into those > > reserves?
On 2/22/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: > Everybody (ab)using PF_MEMALLOC or the new __GFP_EMERGENCY.
So you are only interested in rough estimation of how much many pages you need for a given amount of objects? Why not use ksize() for that then?
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