Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:05:18 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) |
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > fsblock doesn't need any of those hacks, of course. > > > > Nor does mine for the low orders that we are considering. For order > > > MAX_ORDER this is unavoidable since the page allocator cannot manage such > > large pages. It can be used for lower order if there are issues (that I > > have not seen yet). > > Or we can just avoid all doubt (and doesn't have arbitrary limitations > according to what you think might be reasonable or how well the > system actually behaves).
We can avoid all doubt in this patchset as well by adding support for fallback to a vmalloced compound page.
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