From: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3]: xvmalloc memory allocator
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:59:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d760cf2d0903181029r43bf417u502b46e08348f6ae@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903181258110.15570@qirst.com>
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>
>> > Slab memory is not backed by vmalloc space.
>> Oh, it uses "low memory". Still not good for compcache :)
>
> Only if you use 32 bit.
>
Yes, this point is for 32-bit only - many users were unhappy with
compcache size limit due to small vmalloc area on x86-32.
Nitin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-18 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-17 11:34 [PATCH 0/3]: compressed in-memory swapping Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 11:36 ` [PATCH 1/3]: compressed RAM block device Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 12:25 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-18 12:38 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 12:49 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-20 18:56 ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-20 19:53 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 11:37 ` [PATCH 2/3]: xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 16:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-17 17:55 ` Nitin Gupta
[not found] ` <d760cf2d0903171028o600dc94cn7a5238520d104455@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-17 17:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-17 18:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-18 16:07 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 15:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 16:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-18 17:29 ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
2009-03-18 19:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-18 19:36 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-19 2:30 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-19 6:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-17 11:38 ` [PATCH 3/3]: documentation Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 23:34 ` [PATCH 0/3]: compressed in-memory swapping Russ Dill
2009-03-20 14:07 [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take2 Nitin Gupta
2009-03-20 14:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-03-20 14:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-20 16:24 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-20 17:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-20 19:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-20 19:43 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 10:21 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-21 12:12 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 12:24 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-21 13:14 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 16:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-21 17:36 ` Nitin Gupta
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