Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: PATCH - NGROUPS 2.6.2rc2 + fixups | Date | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:09:28 +1100 |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401291138390.689@home.osdl.org> you write: > > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Tim Hockin wrote: > > > > What think? > > I still don't understand the complexity. > > Why the list of pages? Is there really any valid use for this that could > overflow a simple "kmalloc()"? How many groups do people really really > need?
I was happy with kmalloc, and no sorting. Simple patch. Tim complained that he had some wierd-ass users who hit kmalloc limits w/ fragmentation. I added about 10 lines of code to fall back to vmalloc for that very rare case, and you scotched that.
ie. Don't blame Tim: you led us here 8(
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