Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: kiobuf wrong changes in 2.4.9ac9 | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:29:53 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The above is all about performance and design, about real world > showstopper the one in 2.4.9ac9 is that kiobuf allocations are going to > fail during read/writes due mem framentation (this is why it was using > vmalloc indeed) [those faliures should be easily reprocible on x86 boxes
Vmalloc is extremely expensive on many platforms. It looks very easy to simple flip between slab and vmalloc based on size.
Let me know how the testing goes - if it works out well then I'll migrate the -ac tree to the -aa patch when I have time to do the merging - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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