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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/21] MSI: Remove msi_cache
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:35:05 -0600
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Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> writes:

> We don't need a special cache just for msi descriptors. They're not
> particularly large, under 100 bytes for sure, and don't seem to require any
> special alignment etc. On most systems there will be relatively few MSIs,
> and hence we waste most of a page on the cache. Better to just kzalloc the
> space for the few we do need.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>