Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware

Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-27T03:23:10Z

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:35:56PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Ummm... ok? But with only a simple flag, how do you know *which* mempool
> you're trying to use? What if you want to use a mempool for a non-slab
> allocation?

Are there any? A quick poke around has only found a couple of places
that use kzalloc(), which is still quite effectively a slab allocation.
There seems to be just one page user, the dm-crypt driver, which could
be served by a reservation scheme.

-ben
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