From: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:19 -0400
> The previous implementation simply refused to allocate more than a
> boundary's worth of data from an entire page. Some users didn't know
> this, so specified things like SMP_CACHE_BYTES, not realising the
> horrible waste of memory that this was. It's fairly easy to correct
> this problem, just by ensuring we don't cross a boundary within a page.
> This even helps drivers like EHCI (which can't cross a 4k boundary)
> on machines with larger page sizes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
This one looks good to me:
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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