On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > But the whole point is that with the config_page_shift, Nick's worst > case scenario can't happen by design regardless of defrag or not > defrag. While it can _definitely_ happen with SGI design (regardless > of any defrag thing). We can still try to save some memory by > defragging the slab a bit, but it's by far *not* required with > config_page_shift. No defrag at all is required infact. Which worst case scenario? So far this is all a bit foggy. > Let's see how good the mmap support for variable order page size will > work after the 2 weeks... Yeah. Give us some failure scenarios please! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
