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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:33:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > I was just about to ask whether we actually need the feature - I don't > recall ever having needed it, nor do I recall seeing anyone else need it. > > Why is it useful? It allows to see the users of vmalloc. That is important if vmalloc space is scarce (i386 for example). And its going to be important for the compound page fallback to vmalloc. Many of the current users can be switched to use compound pages with fallback. This means that the number of users of vmalloc is reduced and page tables no longer necessary to access the memory. /proc/vmallocinfo allows to review how that reduction occurs. If memory becomes fragmented and larger order allocations are no longer possible then /proc/vmallocinfo allows to see which compound page allocations fell back to virtual compound pages. That is important for new users of virtual compound pages. Such as order 1 stack allocation etc that may fallback to virtual compound pages in the future. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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