Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)

Christoph Lameter
2007-09-03T07:55:26Z

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > We are doing what you describe right now. So the current code is broken?
> Yes.

How about getting rid of the slabs there and use kmalloc? Kmalloc in mm
(and therfore hopefully 2.6.24) will convert kmallocs > PAGE_SIZE to page
allocator calls. Not sure what to do about the 1k and 2k requests though.