linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3][PATCH 4/9] Memory management (dump)

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Message-Id: <1220889306.23386.147.camel@nimitz>
Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:55:06 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>
Cc:	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, jeremy@...p.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [RFC v3][PATCH 4/9] Memory management (dump)

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 21:54 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
> The length of the array may be tunable, or even adaptive (e.g. based
> on statistics from recent checkpoints), in the future.

I'm not sure "tuning" it to make those arrays longer than PAGE_SIZE will
ever be a good idea.  Seems like we should just keep the structures at
PAGE_SIZE to me.

-- Dave

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