From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: take7: vector sharing (Large I/O system support)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 05:17:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050302051742.GC11194@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42226CCE.6070706@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:20:38AM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>
> >>The problem is naming, I think. Those aren't "cache entries", they
> >>are statically preallocated entries. How about changing the config
> >>option name to:
> >
> >
> >Even for early allocations what speaks against alloc_bootmem?
> >
> >
>
> I didn't use alloc_bootmem because I thought alloc_bootmem was
> very simple allocator and we should not use it to allocate
> arbitrary size (not PAGE_SIZE * n) of memory so frequently.
> But I don't know about it very much and my understanding might
> be incorrect.
>
> Can I use alloc_bootmem as well as kmalloc to allocate arbitrary
> size of memory?
alloc_bootmem is pretty stupid so, yes you have to be carefull to
avoid too much wastage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-02 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-28 0:58 take7: vector sharing (Large I/O system support) Kenji Kaneshige
2005-02-28 3:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-28 5:10 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2005-03-01 19:35 ` David Mosberger
2005-03-01 21:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-01 22:04 ` David Mosberger
2005-03-02 1:20 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2005-03-02 5:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-03-02 17:42 ` Luck, Tony
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