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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:23:24 +0530 From: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com> CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, menage@...gle.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com, jack@...e.cz, jes@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, dada1@...mosbay.com, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free() Lai Jiangshan wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:39:55 +1000 >> >> I would go further than this. >> >> Make the code just use vmalloc(). Period. >> >> But then make vmalloc() smart and try do a direct mapping allocation >> first, before falling back to a virtual mapping. (and based on size it >> wouldn't even try it for just big things) >> >> >> > > Hi, Arjan van de Ven > > (I'll rename simple_malloc/simple_free to kvmalloc/kvfree) > I would prefer to find a way to say that one cannot select gfp_mask with this API. -- Balbir -- 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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