From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Allow setting of number of raw devices as a module parameter
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:29:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110430112937.06024368@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110429162817.2eb26efb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:28:17 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:24:29 +0200
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> > Allow setting of maximal number of raw devices as a module parameter. This
> > requires changing of static array into a vmalloced one (the array is going to
> > be too large for kmalloc).
A large vmalloc array is very antisocial on a 32bit x86 box. It looks
like almost all of it would become sane if there was an array of pointers
to raw devices and the devices were initially allocated on need (even if
for now only recovered on rmmod)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-30 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-28 22:24 Jan Kara
2011-04-29 23:19 ` Greg KH
2011-04-29 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-30 0:07 ` Greg KH
2011-04-30 5:09 ` Dave Jones
2011-04-30 5:42 ` Greg KH
2011-04-30 10:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-04-30 15:34 ` Greg KH
2011-04-30 15:41 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-30 15:47 ` Greg KH
2011-05-02 19:22 ` Jan Kara
2011-05-03 9:42 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-30 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-02 19:39 ` Jan Kara
2011-05-02 19:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-02 21:11 ` Jan Kara
2011-05-03 10:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-03 16:26 ` Jan Kara
2011-05-03 17:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
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