Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934604AbZDBCOi (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:14:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760274AbZDBCOO (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:14:14 -0400 Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.254]:46914 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758654AbZDBCON (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:14:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:09:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@qirst.com To: ngupta@vflare.org cc: Andrew Morton , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, edt@aei.ca, linux-mm-cc@laptop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take5 In-Reply-To: <49D400A5.20901@vflare.org> Message-ID: References: <49D0DBA2.20101@vflare.org> <20090401155743.685e2c1e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <49D400A5.20901@vflare.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 14 On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote: > Justification for this custom allocator is present in xvmalloc changelog > itself. It gives reason for not using SLUB and SLOB. During review > cycle, I never got any arguments against that justification. The use of highmem is pretty unique. But that restrict the usefulness to 32 bit processors with too much RAM. -- 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/