Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:58:13 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT question |
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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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