From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
To: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com
Cc: clameter@sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Slab allocators: Define common size limitations
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:02:36 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:58:39 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516.000236.71091606.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0705160855470.24080@pademelon.sonytel.be>
> E.g. for one of the PS3 drivers I need a physically contiguous 256
> KiB-aligned block of 256 KiB. Currently I'm using __alloc_bootmem()
> for that, but maybe kmalloc() becomes a suitable alternative now?
I'm allocating up to 1MB for per-process TLB hash tables
on sparc64. But I can gracefully handle failures and it's
just a performance tweak to use such large sized tables.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-16 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-16 6:15 Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-16 6:39 ` David Miller, Andrew Morton
2007-05-16 6:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-16 7:02 ` David Miller, Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2007-05-16 17:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 21:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-17 8:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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