David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wonder - would it make sense to reserve two arrays of scatterlist structs > and a mutex per CPU sufficient to map up to 1MiB of pages with each array > while the krb5 service is in use? Actually, simply reserving a set per CPU is probably unnecessary. We could, say, set a minimum and a maximum on the reservations (say 2 -> 2*nr_cpus) and then allocate new ones when we run out. Then let the memory shrinker clean them up off an lru list. David