Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:34:24 +0200 | From | Pasi Kärkkäinen <> | Subject | Re: PATCH - NGROUPS 2.6.2rc2 + fixups |
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:09:28PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > 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( > > Rusty.
So what was the conclusion? It would be nice to get this resolved and merged in finally..
-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
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