From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:48:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: vmalloc: Return page array on vunmap In-Reply-To: <200803272322.20493.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <200803272322.20493.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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? -- 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