From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de,
pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:23:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060127032307.GI10409@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43D96AEC.4030200@us.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:35:56PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Ummm... ok? But with only a simple flag, how do you know *which* mempool
> you're trying to use? What if you want to use a mempool for a non-slab
> allocation?
Are there any? A quick poke around has only found a couple of places
that use kzalloc(), which is still quite effectively a slab allocation.
There seems to be just one page user, the dm-crypt driver, which could
be served by a reservation scheme.
-ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-27 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain>
2006-01-25 19:39 ` [patch 1/9] mempool - Add page allocator Matthew Dobson
2006-01-25 19:39 ` [patch 2/9] mempool - Use common mempool " Matthew Dobson
2006-01-25 19:40 ` [patch 4/9] mempool - Update mempool page allocator user Matthew Dobson
2006-01-25 19:40 ` [patch 5/9] mempool - Update kmalloc mempool users Matthew Dobson
2006-01-25 19:40 ` [patch 6/9] mempool - Update kzalloc " Matthew Dobson
2006-01-26 7:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-26 22:03 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-25 19:40 ` [patch 8/9] slab - Add *_mempool slab variants Matthew Dobson
2006-01-26 7:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-26 22:40 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-27 7:09 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-01-27 7:10 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-01-25 19:40 ` [patch 9/9] slab - Implement single mempool backing for slab allocator Matthew Dobson
2006-01-26 8:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-26 22:48 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-27 7:22 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-01-25 23:51 ` [patch 1/9] mempool - Add page allocator Matthew Dobson
2006-01-25 23:51 ` [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware Matthew Dobson
2006-01-26 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-26 22:57 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-26 23:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-26 23:24 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-26 23:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-27 0:15 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-27 0:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-27 0:34 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-27 0:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-27 0:44 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-27 0:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-27 1:07 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-27 10:51 ` Paul Jackson
2006-01-28 1:00 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-28 5:08 ` Paul Jackson
2006-01-28 8:16 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-28 16:14 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2006-01-28 16:41 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-28 16:53 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2006-01-28 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-28 23:10 ` Let the flames begin... [was Re: [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware] Pavel Machek
2006-01-27 0:23 ` [patch 3/9] mempool - Make mempools NUMA aware Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-27 0:35 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-27 3:23 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-01-28 1:08 ` Matthew Dobson
2006-01-25 23:51 ` [patch 7/9] mempool - Update other mempool users Matthew Dobson
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