On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Yes and no : adding a test to select vmalloc()/vfree() instead of > kmalloc()/kfree() will slow down regular users asking 32 pages in their > pipe. But vmalloc would allow buffers larger than MAX_PAGE_ORDER. The allocation would not fail. You could have 1G or so pipes if necessary. > If there is no _sensible_ use for large pipes even for root, please do > not bloat the code just because we can. Some code bloat to enable super sized pipes may be ok? Huge page support could be useful to increase speed? -- 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>