Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2017 10:31:19 +0100 | From | Chris Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm: use kvmalloc_array for drm_malloc* |
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On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:06:06AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > drm_malloc* has grown their own kmalloc with vmalloc fallback > implementations. MM has grown kvmalloc* helpers in the meantime. Let's > use those because it a) reduces the code and b) MM has a better idea > how to implement fallbacks (e.g. do not vmalloc before kmalloc is tried > with __GFP_NORETRY).
Better? The same idea. The only difference I was reluctant to hand out large pages for long lived objects. If that's the wisdom of the core mm, so be it. Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> -Chris
-- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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