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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated >
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  Here's a patch to allocate memory for big system hash tables with the bootmem
>  allocator rather than with main page allocator.

umm, why?