From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leandro Motta Barros Subject: __vmalloc and alloc_page Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:26:11 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309171326.11848.lmb@exatas.unisinos.br> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: sisopiii-l@cscience.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org