From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arjan@infradead.org
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 00:23:31 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081116.002331.203400963.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081115215309.7f29c33c@infradead.org>
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:53:09 -0800
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:35:03 +0800
> Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> > vmalloc() is not good for performance and increasing fragment.
> > but vmalloc() is need for some subsystems' alternative malloc,
> > like cgroup's tasks file and other subsystems(about 20 subsystems).
>
> actually what you are pointing out is that these areas need improvement
> to not need such huge blocks of memory... but only a series of smaller
> blocks instead.
Like the IPSEC policy and state hash tables when hundreds of thousands
of rules become active?
You have to be joking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 8:23 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
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 [this message]
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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