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Message-ID: <CACVXFVMaoD0=Lc6fkaUXGLkzUyYK0x543sapegjazVwafo9FFw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:24:02 +0800
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] block: loop: use kmap(page) instead of page_address(page)
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:49:00PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> On 32bit system, this still may cause pressure on page allocation, since
>> requests are handled concurrently now after using workqueue.
>
> kmap slots are from a much smaller resource pool than non-highmem
> allocations, so if a page needs to stay kmaped from allocation time until
> freeing it it should just be allocated as a kernel mapped page.
Yeah, that makes sense to use non-highmem.
Thanks
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