On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Yeah *smallish* higher order allocations are fine, and we use them all the
> time for things like stacks or networking.
>
> But Aubrey (who somehow got removed from the cc list) wants to do order 9
> allocations from userspace in his nommu environment. I'm just trying to be
> realistic when I say that this isn't going to be robust and a userspace
> solution is needed.
I do agree that order-9 allocations simply is unlikely to work without
some pre-allocation notion or some serious work at active de-fragmentation
(and the page cache is likely to be the _least_ of the problems people
will hit - slab and other kernel allocations are likely to be much much
harder to handle, since you can't free them in quite as directed a
manner).
But for smallish-order (eg perhaps 3-4 possibly even more if you are
careful in other places), the page cache limiter may well be a "good
enough" solution in practice, especially if other allocations can be
controlled by strict usage patterns (which is not realistic in a general-
purpose kind of situation, but might be realistic in embedded).
Linus
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