Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:55:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [BLOCK] bh: Ensure bh fits within a page |
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Yes. But then that number must always be a fraction of pagesize. > > > > understood, as is 1024, 2048, and 4096 are. Well, if pagesize is 4096 > is 4096 really a fraction of 4096? :) > > Also, isn't all sizes for kmalloc that are under pagesize a fraction of > the page size? Or more correctly, a power of 2?
Well the size of the object and the alignment must be a fraction of the pagesize. If you get page aligned pages then I wonder why use the slab allocator? The page allocator will be much better suited.
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