linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:49:50 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Benjamin Blum <bblum@...gle.com>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	serue@...ibm.com, menage@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where
 array  size is too large

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:27:43 -0400
Benjamin Blum <bblum@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:03 AM, KAMEZAWA
> Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@...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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