On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:14 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

quoted text
> Provide a method to get the upper bound on the pages needed to allocate
> a given number of objects from a given kmem_cache.
> 
> This lays the foundation for a generic reserve framework as presented in
> a later patch in this series. This framework needs to convert object demand
> (kmalloc() bytes, kmem_cache_alloc() objects) to pages.
> 
> ...
>
>  /*
> + * return the max number of pages required to allocated count
> + * objects from the given cache
> + */
> +unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int objects)

You might want to have another go at that comment.

quoted text
> +/*
> + * return the max number of pages required to allocate @bytes from kmalloc
> + * in an unspecified number of allocation of heterogeneous size.
> + */
> +unsigned kestimate(gfp_t flags, size_t bytes)

And its pal.


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