> > Yup it has a pool for everyone. Question is how to divide the loot ;-) > > > IIRC, Guy Shattah's use case was for allocations greater than MAX_ORDER. > > This would not directly address that. A huge contiguous area (2GB) is > > the sweet spot' for best performance in his case. However, I think he > > could still benefit from using a set of larger (such as 2MB) size > > allocations which this scheme could help with. > > MAX_ORDER can be increased to allow for larger allocations. IA64 has f.e. > a much larger MAX_ORDER size. So does powerpc. And then the reservation > scheme will work. > MAX_ORDER can be increased only if kernel is recompiled. It won't work for code running for the general case / typical user. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href
