On Fri, Mar 16 2001, David Mansfield wrote:
> > Same thing for 2.4.2.
> >
> > Is my allocation loop "over engineering", or just plain bad thing to do ?
> >
>
> I've been running this (or close: my version tries 8 frames, then jumps
> immediately to 1, without trying 4 and 2 in between if the kmalloc
> fails) since it was changed. Without such a patch, my CDDA read speed
> drops to 25% the original rate. You also have the fix that started the
> thread!
>
> Jens (cdrom maintainer) said he was working on a more elegant solution,
> but to me, such a simple fix as yours should go in the kernel in the
> meantime. Jens?
I haven't integrated it yet, because of the vm printing memory
allocations errors. Which sort of destroys the idea of doing "clever"
allocations like this.
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