Re: [RFC] per thread page reservation patch

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:32:40PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:14:15PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote:
> > This seems like a very asymmetrical behavior. If the code explicitly 
> > reserves pages, it should explicitly use them, or it will become 
> > impossible to track down who is using what (not to mention that this 
> > will slow down every regular user of __alloc_pages, even if it is just 
> > for a quick test).
> > 
> > Why are there specialized functions to reserve the pages, but then they 
> > are used through the standard __alloc_pages interface?
> 
> That seems to be the whole point of the patch, as that way it'll serve
> all sub-allocators or kernel function called by the user.  Without this
> behaviour the caller could have simply used a mempool.

I still don't get it why reiserfs can't put the preallocated 
pool somewhere private like all other users who do similar things
do too (and yes there are quite a lot of subsystems who do 
preallocation) 

Why pollute task_struct for this? 

-Andi
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