From: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>,
Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@osld.org.sun.com
Subject: Re: PATCH - NGROUPS 2.6.2rc2 + fixups
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:34:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219193424.GA6735@edu.joroinen.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040130021802.AA5BC2C0BF@lists.samba.org>
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:09:28PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401291138390.689@home.osdl.org> you write:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > >
> > > What think?
> >
> > I still don't understand the complexity.
> >
> > Why the list of pages? Is there really any valid use for this that could
> > overflow a simple "kmalloc()"? How many groups do people really really
> > need?
>
> I was happy with kmalloc, and no sorting. Simple patch. Tim
> complained that he had some wierd-ass users who hit kmalloc limits w/
> fragmentation. I added about 10 lines of code to fall back to vmalloc
> for that very rare case, and you scotched that.
>
> ie. Don't blame Tim: you led us here 8(
>
> Rusty.
So what was the conclusion? It would be nice to get this resolved and merged
in finally..
-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
^
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Linux
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Choice.of.the
.Next.Generation.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-29 19:25 PATCH - NGROUPS 2.6.2rc2 + fixups Tim Hockin
2004-01-29 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-30 2:09 ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-09 11:38 ` Stefan Voelkel
2004-02-10 4:26 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-19 19:34 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen [this message]
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