Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:49:50 +0900 | From | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large |
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:27:43 -0400 Benjamin Blum <bblum@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:03 AM, KAMEZAWA > Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: > > ???? why not using vmalloc() always ? > > > > Thanks, > > -Kame > > > > The idea behind this patch is that in most cases, we want to use > kmalloc for performance, but sometimes the array will be too big. See > the previous thread (linked in the root message of this thread) for > discussion of the issue. > IIUC, this place, .../procs interface is not so important for performance as to being allowed this ugly conding.
Thanks, -Kame
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