Re: [PATCH] Containment measures for slab objects on scattergather lists

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 01:05:55 EST


From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:39:01 -0700 (PDT)

> Hmmmm... Maybe we are creating more of a mess with this. Isnt there some
> other way to handle these object.

That's where I was going with the silly idea to use another
allocator :)

Really, it would be great if we could treat kmalloc() objects
just like real pages. Everything wants to do I/O on pages
but sometimes (like the networking) you have a kmalloc
chunk which is technically just a part of a page.

The fact that there is no easy way to make this work is
frustrating :-)
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