Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:55:19 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 10:33 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Again I have not seen any fallbacks to vmalloc in my testing. What we are > doing here is mainly to address your theoretical cases that we so far have > never seen to be a problem and increase the reliability of allocations of > page orders larger than 3 to a usable level. So far I have so far not > dared to enable orders larger than 3 by default.
take a recent -mm kernel, boot with mem=128M.
start 2 processes that each mmap a separate 64M file, and which does sequential writes on them. start a 3th process that does the same with 64M anonymous.
wait for a while, and you'll see order=1 failures.
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