Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:49:50 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Benjamin Blum <bblum@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       serue@us.ibm.com, menage@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where
 array  size is too large
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:27:43 -0400
Benjamin Blum <bblum@google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:03 AM, KAMEZAWA
> Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > ???? why not using vmalloc() always ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Kame
> >
> 
> The idea behind this patch is that in most cases, we want to use
> kmalloc for performance, but sometimes the array will be too big. See
> the previous thread (linked in the root message of this thread) for
> discussion of the issue.
> 
IIUC, this place, .../procs interface is not so important for performance
as to being allowed this ugly conding.

Thanks,
-Kame

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