Re: [PATCH mmotm 1/5] nilfs2: fix problems of memory allocation in ioctl

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 03:58:40PM +0900, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:13:27 +0100, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > -#define KMALLOC_SIZE_MIN	4096	/* 4KB */
> > > -#define KMALLOC_SIZE_MAX	131072	/* 128 KB */
> > > +#define NILFS_IOCTL_KMALLOC_SIZE	8192	/* 8KB */
> > 
> > Better would be if you could go to PAGE_SIZE. order 0 allocations
> > are typically the fastest / least likely to stall.
> > 
> > Also in this case it's a good idea to use __get_free_pages()
> > directly, kmalloc tends to be become less efficient at larger
> > sizes.
> 
> Thanks again.  I've rewritten the patch to use __get_free_pages().

Thanks looks good now.

-Andi
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