From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] idr: Document ida tree sections
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 10:57:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130809145756.GL20515@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130807205117.GC11612@kmo-pixel>
Hello,
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:51:17PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> + * So if the max section size is 64k, that's ~4096 sections, with 8 byte
> + * pointers that's a little over 32k for the pointers to sections.
> + *
> + * That means max size sections are order 4 page allocations.
Order 4 allocations for common data structure doesn't really sound
like a good idea to me. It's gonna work fine on relatively large
machines but suck on mobile / small embedded devices, many of which
are still struggling with 32bit address space and compaction may not
be enabled. It just doens't make sense to me to impose 64k
allocations from low level library function like ida.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-09 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-07 17:34 IDA/IDR rewrite, percpu ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:34 ` [PATCH 03/10] idr: Rewrite ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 20:22 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-07 20:51 ` [PATCH] idr: Document ida tree sections Kent Overstreet
2013-08-09 14:57 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-08-13 22:13 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-13 22:19 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 22:27 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-13 22:44 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 22:59 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-13 23:22 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 23:51 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-13 23:59 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-15 0:04 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-15 0:22 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 22:33 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:34 ` [PATCH 04/10] idr: Percpu ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-07 18:33 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 19:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-07 19:57 ` [PATCH] idr: Use this_cpu_ptr() for percpu_ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-08 14:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-20 21:19 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-08-20 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-21 2:01 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 2:07 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21 2:31 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 11:59 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21 21:09 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 21:16 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21 21:24 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 21:31 ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21 14:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-21 17:49 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-08-21 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-22 16:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-22 16:56 ` Jens Axboe
2013-08-07 17:46 ` [PATCH 05/10] idr: Kill old deprecated idr interfaces Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:46 ` [PATCH 06/10] idr: Rename idr_get_next() -> idr_find_next() Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:46 ` [PATCH 08/10] idr: Reimplement idr on top of ida/radix trees Kent Overstreet
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