On 2010-11-16, at 16:11, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:28:54 -0800 (PST) > David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> - avoid doing anything other than GFP_KERNEL allocations for __vmalloc(): >> the only current users are gfs2, ntfs, and ceph (the page allocator >> __vmalloc() can be discounted since it's done at boot and GFP_ATOMIC >> here has almost no chance of failing since the size is determined based >> on what is available). > > ^^ this > > Using vmalloc anywhere is lame. I agree. What we really want is 1MB kmalloc() to work... :-/ Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Technical Lead Oracle Corporation Canada Inc. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>