From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
menage@google.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com, jack@suse.cz,
jes@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free()
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:14:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081116.001444.97681353.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081116044901.GA24624@x200.localdomain>
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:49:01 +0300
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:33:15PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > some subsystem needs vmalloc() when required memory is large.
> > but current kernel has not APIs for this requirement.
>
> It doesn't mean there should be such an API.
If it leads to lots of code duplication, which this case has, that is
enough reason to provide helper functions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-16 4:33 Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-16 4:49 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-16 8:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-11-16 18:42 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-16 4:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-16 5:35 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-16 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-16 5:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 6:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-16 8:23 ` David Miller
2008-11-16 8:21 ` David Miller
2008-11-16 8:19 ` David Miller
2008-11-16 18:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 21:39 ` Dave Airlie
2008-11-16 21:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-16 22:42 ` Dave Airlie
2008-11-17 2:08 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-17 4:53 ` Balbir Singh
2008-11-17 5:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-17 6:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 7:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-17 7:15 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 8:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-17 8:24 ` Balbir Singh
2008-11-18 4:39 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-18 5:16 ` Lai Jiangshan
2008-11-17 4:46 ` Balbir Singh
2008-11-17 4:43 ` Balbir Singh
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