Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933054AbXF2FFz (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:05:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751552AbXF2FFr (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:05:47 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50508 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193AbXF2FFr (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:05:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070628.220606.112621271.davem@davemloft.net> To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: hugh@veritas.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Containment measures for slab objects on scatter gather lists From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20070628.212825.78710369.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 21 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:39:01 -0700 (PDT) > Hmmmm... Maybe we are creating more of a mess with this. Isnt there some > other way to handle these object. That's where I was going with the silly idea to use another allocator :) Really, it would be great if we could treat kmalloc() objects just like real pages. Everything wants to do I/O on pages but sometimes (like the networking) you have a kmalloc chunk which is technically just a part of a page. The fact that there is no easy way to make this work is frustrating :-) - 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/