From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Paul Mundt <paul.mundt@nokia.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] mempool_alloc() pre-allocated object usage
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:35:40 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051005213540.GA10123@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051003162122.GB1844@nokia.com>
Hi Paul,
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 07:21:22PM +0300, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:49:13PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:36 +0300, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > > Both usage patterns seem valid from my point of view, would you be open
> > > to something that would accomodate both? (ie, possibly adding in a flag
> > > to determine pre-allocated object usage?) Or should I not be using
> > > mempool for contiguity purposes?
> >
> > a similar dillema was in the highmem bounce code in 2.4; what worked
> > really well back then was to do it both; eg use half the pool for
> > "immediate" use, then try a VM alloc, and use the second half of the
> > pool for the really emergency cases.
> >
> Unfortunately this won't work very well in our case since it's
> specifically high order allocations that we are after, and we don't have
> the extra RAM to allow for this.
Out of curiosity, what is the requirement for higher order pages?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-06 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-03 14:36 Paul Mundt
2005-10-03 14:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-03 16:21 ` Paul Mundt
2005-10-05 21:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-10-04 6:59 ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-03 14:59 ` Brian Gerst
2005-10-04 1:06 ` Nick Piggin
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