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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	clameter@sgi.com
Subject: Re: Slab allocators: Define common size limitations
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:02:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516.000236.71091606.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0705160855470.24080@pademelon.sonytel.be>

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:58:39 +0200 (CEST)

> E.g. for one of the PS3 drivers I need a physically contiguous 256
> KiB-aligned block of 256 KiB. Currently I'm using __alloc_bootmem()
> for that, but maybe kmalloc() becomes a suitable alternative now?

I'm allocating up to 1MB for per-process TLB hash tables
on sparc64.  But I can gracefully handle failures and it's
just a performance tweak to use such large sized tables.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705152313490.5832@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
2007-05-16  6:58 ` Slab allocators: Define common size limitations Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-16  7:02   ` David Miller [this message]
2007-05-16 17:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 21:42   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-17  8:45     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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