Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2007 12:31:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k) |
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > How about getting rid of the slabs there and use kmalloc? Kmalloc in mm > > (and therfore hopefully 2.6.24) will convert kmallocs > PAGE_SIZE to page > > allocator calls. Not sure what to do about the 1k and 2k requests though. > > The problem is that we must never use kmalloc pages, so we always need > to request a page or more for these. Better to use get_free_page directly, > that's how I fixed it in XFS a while ago.
So you'd be fine with replacing the allocs with
get_free_pages(GFP_xxx, get_order(size)) ?
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