From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase maximum kmalloc size to 256K In-Reply-To: <20050922131521.77da1684.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20050922131521.77da1684.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, manfred@colorfulllife.com List-ID: 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. -- 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