On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Allowing a pipe to store thousands of page refs seems quite useless and > dangerous. > > Having to use vmalloc()/vfree() for every splice()/vmsplice() would be a > performance loss anyway. > > (fs/splice.c splice_grow_spd() will also want to allocate big kmalloc() > chunks) Why is it not using the page allocator for large allocations? -- 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=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>