From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:58:04 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase maximum kmalloc size to 256K Message-ID: <20050923005804.GI26389@parisc-linux.org> References: <20050922131521.77da1684.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfulllife.com List-ID: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:55:43PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Christoph Lameter 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. -- 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: email@kvack.org