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Re: [PATCH] libipw: split ieee->networks into small pieces

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On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:18 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> The ieee->networks consists of 128 struct libipw_network entries. If
> we allocate this chunk of memory altogether, it ends up with an
> order 4 page allocation. High order page allocation is likely to fail
> on system high load. This patch splits the big chunk memory allocation
> into small pieces, each is 344 bytes, allocates them with 128 times.
> 
> The patch fixed bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14989

Could it use cfg80211's scan list stuff and the wext handlers for
scanning there?

johannes

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