From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 09:06:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1491570407.8850.164.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170407064911.25447-1-ying.huang@intel.com>
On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 14:49 +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
>
> Now vzalloc() is used in swap code to allocate various data
> structures, such as swap cache, swap slots cache, cluster info, etc.
> Because the size may be too large on some system, so that normal
> kzalloc() may fail.A A But using kzalloc() has some advantages,
> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v3] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 09:06:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1491570407.8850.164.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170407064911.25447-1-ying.huang@intel.com>
On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 14:49 +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
>
> Now vzalloc() is used in swap code to allocate various data
> structures, such as swap cache, swap slots cache, cluster info, etc.
> Because the size may be too large on some system, so that normal
> kzalloc() may fail. But using kzalloc() has some advantages,
> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-07 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-07 6:49 [PATCH -mm -v3] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure Huang, Ying
2017-04-07 6:49 ` Huang, Ying
2017-04-07 13:06 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2017-04-07 13:06 ` Rik van Riel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1491570407.8850.164.camel@redhat.com \
--to=riel@redhat.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=dave.hansen@intel.com \
--cc=hughd@google.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=minchan@kernel.org \
--cc=shli@kernel.org \
--cc=ying.huang@intel.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.