Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH mmotm 1/5] nilfs2: fix problems of memory allocation in ioctl | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:47:58 +0100 |
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Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> The current memory copy function of nilfs2 ioctl has following > problems:
Wouldn't it be easier/faster/more reliable to just use vmalloc for those allocations? The only reason to use kmalloc for such large allocations would be if you want to do direct DMA (but even there are ways to do this using virtual allocations and scatter-gather)
-Andi >
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