From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755407AbZHTWfM (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:35:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755325AbZHTWfL (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:35:11 -0400 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:37733 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755053AbZHTWfL (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:35:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:35:10 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Menage , bblum@andrew.cmu.edu, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, Dave Hansen , David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Use vmalloc for large cgroups pidlist allocations Message-ID: <20090820163510.27942b62@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20090820141400.f6d3d5a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090818235059.22531.42618.stgit@menage.mtv.corp.google.com> <20090818235827.22531.60306.stgit@menage.mtv.corp.google.com> <20090820141400.f6d3d5a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:14:00 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > Hang on. Isn't this why Dave just wrote and I just rush-merged > lib/flex_array.c? > > Was that code evaluated for this application and judged unsuitable? If so, > for what reason? Should it be helpful: I wrote an overview of the flex_array API here: http://lwn.net/Articles/345273/ I could format it up for addition to Documentation/ if people want. jon