Re: [PATCH] fs: use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mardi 04 mai 2010 à 12:20 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :

> we can use alloc_pages_exact()/free_pages_exact() when size is larger
> than PAGE_SIZE, then size isn't needed to be a power of two.
> 
> void *kvmalloc(size_t size)
> {
>       void *ptr;
> 
>       if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>           return kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>       ptr = alloc_pages_exact(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
>       if (ptr)
>           return ptr;
>       return vmalloc(size);
> }
> 
> void *kvfree(void *ptr, size_t size)
> {
>        BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
>        if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>             kfree(ptr);
>        else if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr))
>             vfree(ptr);
>        else
>             free_pages_exact(ptr, size);
> }

Yes, this has the drawback to need 'size' in kvfree(), but it should not
be a problem for users of this code.

alloc_pages_exact() also fragments high order page, but I guess it's not
worse than kmalloc() in this context.