Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759151AbZCRR32 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:29:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752761AbZCRR3S (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:29:18 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.225]:53941 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754385AbZCRR3R (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:29:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <49BF8ABC.6040805@vflare.org> <49BF8B8B.40408@vflare.org> <49C11088.7000205@vflare.org> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:59:15 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3]: xvmalloc memory allocator From: Nitin Gupta To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 19 On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote: > >> > Slab memory is not backed by vmalloc space. >> Oh, it uses "low memory". Still not good for compcache :) > > Only if you use 32 bit. > Yes, this point is for 32-bit only - many users were unhappy with compcache size limit due to small vmalloc area on x86-32. Nitin -- 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/