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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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