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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	manfred@colorfulllife.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase maximum kmalloc size to 256K
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:58:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050923005804.GI26389@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509221329270.18240@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:55:43PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  The workqueue structure can grow larger than 128k under 2.6.14-rc2 (with 
> > >  all debugging features enabled on 64 bit platforms)
> > 
> > Would it be better to use alloc_percpu() in there?  Bearing in mind that
> > one day we'll probably have an alloc_percpu() which incurs one less
> > indirection and which allocates things node-affinely.
> 
> Yes I am working on a patch like that right now. But there is still the 
> danger that other structures also may get big in the future. It would 
> be best to raise the limit.

It would be better to leave the limit alone so other structures which
get ridiculously big are also caught and fixed.

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-23  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-22 20:07 Christoph Lameter
2005-09-22 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-22 20:55   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-23  0:58     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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