From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmap_pages() (4th resend)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:42:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020805184257.A19020@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207291355550.1470-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:59:29PM -0700
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:59:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm? Is that such a big deal? I think it's worth it for cleanliness, and
> kmalloc() should be plenty big enough (a standard 4kB kmalloc on x86 can
> cover 4MB worth of vmalloc() space, and anybody who wants to vmalloc more
> than than that had better have some good reason for it - and kmalloc()
> does actually work for much larger areas too).
>
> So the kmalloc() approach sounds pretty trivial to me.
It wasn't that trivial, but after the major overhaul I gave to it
mm/vmalloc.c looks much nicer..
Patch will follow shortly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-05 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-29 19:15 [PATCH] vmap_pages() (4th resend) Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-29 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-29 19:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-29 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-29 21:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-05 17:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-08-05 18:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
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