Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751110AbWHPQQS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:16:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751115AbWHPQQS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:16:18 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:26254 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751110AbWHPQQQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:16:16 -0400 Message-ID: <44E344A8.1040804@colorfullife.com> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:15:36 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060501 Fedora/1.7.13-1.1.fc5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: mpm@selenic.com, Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Andi Kleen , Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [MODSLAB 0/7] A modular slab allocator V1 References: <20060816022238.13379.24081.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060816022238.13379.24081.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1015 Lines: 27 Christoph Lameter wrote: >5. Three different slab allocators. >[snip] > It is called the Slabifier because it can slabify any > page allocator. VMALLOC is a valid page allocator so > it can do slabs on vmalloc ranges. You can define your > own page allocator (mempools??) and then slabify that > one. > > Which .config settings are necessary? I tried to use it (uniprocessor, no debug options enabled), but the compilation failed. 2.6.18-rc4 kernel. All 7 patches applied. And: Are you sure that the slabifier works on vmalloc ranges? The code uses virt_to_page(). Does that function work for vmalloc on all archs? The lack of virt_to_page() on vmalloc/mempool memory. always prevented the slab allocator from handling such memory. -- Manfred - 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/