Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752234Ab1ECJmT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 05:42:19 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:50523 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751406Ab1ECJmS (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 05:42:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:42:58 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jan Kara Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: Allow setting of number of raw devices as a module parameter Message-ID: <20110503104258.5a808b9d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110502192256.GL4556@quack.suse.cz> References: <1304029469-19672-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20110429162817.2eb26efb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110430112937.06024368@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20110430153452.GA21439@suse.de> <20110430164141.55d0ef0a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20110502192256.GL4556@quack.suse.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 16 > So if people don't like vmalloc() (which I can understand), then I see no > other option than dynamically allocating struct raw_device_data. That gets rather more complicated. So yes I agree your question is a good one - for smaller sizes I'd rather see it from the kmalloc/static pool but for small sizes it also doesn't matter much anyway. Objection rescinded - I think you've proved convincingly that the only way to sort it properly is horribly complicated -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe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/