From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, menage@google.com,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
jack@suse.cz, jes@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
dada1@cosmosbay.com, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free()
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:23:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4920F8C4.30209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4920D238.8090905@cn.fujitsu.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-17 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-16 4:33 [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free() Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-16 4:49 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-16 8:14 ` David Miller
2008-11-16 18:42 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-16 4:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-16 5:35 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-16 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-16 5:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 6:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-16 8:23 ` David Miller
2008-11-16 8:21 ` David Miller
2008-11-16 8:19 ` David Miller
2008-11-16 18:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 21:39 ` Dave Airlie
2008-11-16 21:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 22:42 ` Dave Airlie
2008-11-17 2:08 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-17 4:53 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2008-11-17 5:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-17 6:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 7:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-17 7:15 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 8:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 8:24 ` Balbir Singh
2008-11-18 4:39 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-18 5:16 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-17 4:46 ` Balbir Singh
2008-11-17 4:43 ` Balbir Singh
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