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    SubjectRe: O_DIRECT question
    Nick Piggin wrote:
    > Linus Torvalds wrote:

    >> Very basic issue: the perfect is the enemy of the good. Claiming that
    >> there is a "proper solution" is usually a total red herring. Quite
    >> often there isn't, and the "paper over" is actually not papering over,
    >> it's quite possibly the best solution there is.
    >
    >
    > Yeah *smallish* higher order allocations are fine, and we use them all the
    > time for things like stacks or networking.
    >
    > But Aubrey (who somehow got removed from the cc list) wants to do order 9
    > allocations from userspace in his nommu environment. I'm just trying to be
    > realistic when I say that this isn't going to be robust and a userspace
    > solution is needed.

    Oh, and also: I don't disagree with that limiting pagecache to some %
    might be useful for other reasons.

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