From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Allow setting of number of raw devices as a module parameter
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:42:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110503104258.5a808b9d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110502192256.GL4556@quack.suse.cz>
> So if people don't like vmalloc() (which I can understand), then I see no
> other option than dynamically allocating struct raw_device_data.
That gets rather more complicated.
So yes I agree your question is a good one - for smaller sizes I'd rather
see it from the kmalloc/static pool but for small sizes it also doesn't
matter much anyway.
Objection rescinded - I think you've proved convincingly that the only
way to sort it properly is horribly complicated
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-03 9:42 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
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 [this message]
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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