Re: [PATCH] mempool: kvmalloc pool

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On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 12:39:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu,  1 Feb 2024 07:15:44 -0500 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Add mempool_init_kvmalloc_pool() and mempool_create_kvmalloc_pool(),
> > which wrap kvmalloc() instead of kmalloc() - kmalloc() with a vmalloc()
> > fallback.
> > 
> 
> Why do we need this?
> 
> Can we expect to see users of this?

Yeah, I should have had that in the commit message - it's replacing
mempool_init_kvpmalloc_pool() in fs/bcachefs/util.c




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