On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:18:38AM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote: > > ext2 & ext3 lists, > > Attatched is a patch that allows ext2 and ext3 to link correctly when > the kernel is configured with a large NR_CPUS. We do have an immediate > need for this patch. That's run correctly, I assume.... > Any opinions on this? The per-cpu lists are causing the kmalloc to fail > due to allocating more than the max. vmalloc()'s are not free. They burn kmap address space, TLB entries, etc. How many CPU's are necessary before we run into problems, anyway? I'd be much happier if there was a kvmalloc() call which resolved to either kmalloc() or vmalloc() depending on how insane the number of CPU's were, or if kvmalloc() programmatically made the determination at runtime, and kvfree() checked the address to determine whether it was a kmalloc()-returned address or a vmalloc()-returned address, and called kfree() or vfree() as appropriate. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
