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Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
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David Miller <davem@...>
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Cc: <clameter@...>, <linux-mm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <netdev@...>
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Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
Date: Friday, March 21, 2008 - 3:31 am
From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:02:11 +0100
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> But, isnt it defeating the purpose of this *particular* vmalloc() use ? > > CONFIG_NUMA and vmalloc() at boot time means : > > Try to distribute the pages on several nodes. > > Memory pressure on ehash_locks[] is so high we definitly want to spread it. > > (for similar uses of vmalloc(), see also hashdist=1 ) > > Also, please CC netdev for network patches :)
I agree with Eric, converting any of the networking hash allocations to this new facility is not the right thing to do. --
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[14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
, Christoph Lameter
, (Fri Mar 21, 2:17 am)
Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
, Eric Dumazet
, (Fri Mar 21, 3:02 am)
Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
, David Miller
, (Fri Mar 21, 3:31 am)
Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
, Christoph Lameter
, (Fri Mar 21, 1:31 pm)
Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
, Christoph Lameter
, (Fri Mar 21, 3:03 am)
Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
, David Miller
, (Fri Mar 21, 3:31 am)
Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
, Eric Dumazet
, (Fri Mar 21, 3:42 am)
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