Re: [PATCH] Containment measures for slab objects on scatter gather lists

David Miller
2007-06-29T05:05:55Z

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:39:01 -0700 (PDT)

> Hmmmm... Maybe we are creating more of a mess with this. Isnt there some
> other way to handle these object.

That's where I was going with the silly idea to use another
allocator :)

Really, it would be great if we could treat kmalloc() objects
just like real pages. Everything wants to do I/O on pages
but sometimes (like the networking) you have a kmalloc
chunk which is technically just a part of a page.

The fact that there is no easy way to make this work is
frustrating :-)