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DateMon, 3 Sep 2007 00:55:04 -0700 (PDT)
FromChristoph Lameter <>
SubjectRe: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > We are doing what you describe right now. So the current code is broken?
> Yes.

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.
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