Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030281AbWA0D1Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:27:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030284AbWA0D1Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:27:24 -0500 Received: from kanga.kvack.org ([66.96.29.28]:21937 "EHLO kanga.kvack.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030281AbWA0D1Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:27:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:23:10 -0500 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Matthew Dobson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware Message-ID: <20060127032307.GI10409@kvack.org> References: <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain> <1138233093.27293.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060127002331.GH10409@kvack.org> <43D96AEC.4030200@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43D96AEC.4030200@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 883 Lines: 19 On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:35:56PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote: > Ummm... ok? But with only a simple flag, how do you know *which* mempool > you're trying to use? What if you want to use a mempool for a non-slab > allocation? Are there any? A quick poke around has only found a couple of places that use kzalloc(), which is still quite effectively a slab allocation. There seems to be just one page user, the dm-crypt driver, which could be served by a reservation scheme. -ben -- "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to interrupt, but the police are here and they've asked us to stop the party." Don't Email: . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/