On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > How about getting rid of the slabs there and use kmalloc? Kmalloc in mm > > (and therfore hopefully 2.6.24) will convert kmallocs > PAGE_SIZE to page > > allocator calls. Not sure what to do about the 1k and 2k requests though. > > The problem is that we must never use kmalloc pages, so we always need > to request a page or more for these. Better to use get_free_page directly, > that's how I fixed it in XFS a while ago. So you'd be fine with replacing the allocs with get_free_pages(GFP_xxx, get_order(size)) ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
