From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: vmalloc: Return page array on vunmap Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:02:51 +1100 References: <200803272322.20493.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803281002.52110.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Friday 28 March 2008 05:48, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Is this really for something important? Because vmap/vunmap is so slow > > and unscalable that it is pretty well unusable for any kind of dynamic > > allocations. I have mostly rewritten it so it is a lot more scalable, > > but all these little patches will make annoying rejects... Can it wait? > > Its necessary for the virtual compound page patchset which relies on > vmap/vunmap. Is the rewrite available somewhere? So can't it just stay with that patchset? -- 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