From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f70.google.com (mail-wm0-f70.google.com [74.125.82.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1B16B025F for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:28:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f70.google.com with SMTP id w143so6658161wmw.3 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com (mail-wm0-f48.google.com. [74.125.82.48]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v124si37826566wmd.119.2016.04.28.08.28.13 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:28:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id e201so81241410wme.0 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:28:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:28:12 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: simplify free_params for kmalloc vs vmalloc fallback Message-ID: <20160428152812.GM31489@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1461849846-27209-20-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <1461855076-1682-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Shaohua Li , dm-devel@redhat.com On Thu 28-04-16 11:04:05, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka Thanks! > BTW. we could also use kvmalloc to complement kvfree, proposed here: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-July/msg00046.html If there are sufficient users (I haven't checked other than quick git grep on KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE and there do not seem that many) who are sharing the same fallback strategy then why not. But I suspect that some would rather fallback earlier and even do not attempt larger than e.g. order-1 requests. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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