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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: prevent warnings when allocating with __GFP_NOWARN
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:01:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013f387a3aa2-aa8535ad-b76e-4fd3-8a6b-19e98cc19104-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370968655.3252.49.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Yes and no : adding a test to select vmalloc()/vfree() instead of
> kmalloc()/kfree() will slow down regular users asking 32 pages in their
> pipe.

But vmalloc would allow buffers larger than MAX_PAGE_ORDER. The allocation
would not fail. You could have 1G or so pipes if necessary.

> If there is no _sensible_ use for large pipes even for root, please do
> not bloat the code just because we can.

Some code bloat to enable super sized pipes may be ok?

Huge page support could be useful to increase speed?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-12 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-10 19:18 Sasha Levin
2013-06-10 19:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-06-10 19:56   ` Sasha Levin
2013-06-10 23:40     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-11  0:54       ` Sasha Levin
2013-06-11  6:28         ` Pekka Enberg
2013-06-11 13:16           ` Sasha Levin
2013-06-11 15:14             ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-11 15:16               ` Pekka Enberg
2013-06-11 15:23                 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-11 15:44                   ` Sasha Levin
2013-06-11 16:13                     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-11 16:19                       ` Sasha Levin
2013-06-11 16:37                         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-11 16:43                           ` Dave Jones
2013-06-11 19:02                           ` Sasha Levin
2013-06-12 13:01                           ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2013-06-11 16:28                       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-11 22:34                 ` Andrew Morton
2013-06-13  7:03                   ` Pekka Enberg
2013-06-11 22:10               ` David Rientjes
2013-06-11 15:08         ` Christoph Lameter

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