On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:36:32AM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > > Without knowing your exact implementation plans: introducing an > additional reference indirection for every lookup will have a > huge performance penalty as well. > > Is your plan to only introduce the master table after an > allocation has failed?
Right, obviously the extra indirections would only come into play after a failed allocation. As soon as we can run the worker thread it'll try to remove the extra indirections by doing vmalloc. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
