From: Leandro Motta Barros <lmb@exatas.unisinos.br>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: sisopiii-l@cscience.org
Subject: __vmalloc and alloc_page
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:26:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309171326.11848.lmb@exatas.unisinos.br> (raw)
Hello again,
Thanks for the feedback on the previous email. Well, there is another thing we
thought that could be done. '__vmalloc()' allocates its memory by calling
'alloc_page()' for every necessary page. Wouldn't it be better calling
'alloc_pages()' to allocate more pages at once whenever possible? We would
need more bookeepping, and sometimes it could be necessary to actually
allocate the memory page per page, but we think this approach could be a way
to use memory blocks of higher order.
Do you think this is feasible or useful?
Also, we would like to know if you have suggestions on topics that we could
explore and implement.
LMB
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next reply other threads:[~2003-09-17 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-17 16:26 Leandro Motta Barros [this message]
2003-09-17 17:19 ` Ravi Krishnamurthy
2003-09-17 19:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-18 16:20 ` Leandro Motta Barros
2003-09-18 17:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
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