Re: [PATCH 3/7] memcontrol: use simple_malloc()/simple_free()

[David Miller]

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:51:28 +0300

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:33:46PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > use simple_malloc()/simple_free() instead of current codes.
> 
> struct mem_cgroup can't reach the size when kmalloc starts failing.

That's not the point.

When you got past a page, kmalloc/gfp allocations are less reliable,
and people also want NUMA spreading when possible.

That's why we use PAGE_SIZE as the table vmalloc() breakpoint.  We do
this in many places already, with the exact same heuristics, and
for the exact same reasons.
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