From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:42:57 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmap_pages() (4th resend) Message-ID: <20020805184257.A19020@infradead.org> References: <20020729214638.A4582@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:59:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:59:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmm? Is that such a big deal? I think it's worth it for cleanliness, and > kmalloc() should be plenty big enough (a standard 4kB kmalloc on x86 can > cover 4MB worth of vmalloc() space, and anybody who wants to vmalloc more > than than that had better have some good reason for it - and kmalloc() > does actually work for much larger areas too). > > So the kmalloc() approach sounds pretty trivial to me. It wasn't that trivial, but after the major overhaul I gave to it mm/vmalloc.c looks much nicer.. Patch will follow shortly. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/