On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:24:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Really, it would be great if we could treat kmalloc() objects > > just like real pages. > > >From a high level, that seems like a bad idea. kmalloc() gives you a > virtual address and you really shouldn't be poking around at that memory's > underlying page's pageframe metadata. > > However we can of course do tasteless and weird things if the benefit is > sufficient....
Hey, when we had exactly that issues coming up with xfs/ext3 recovery over iscsi/aoe you said it's fine :) End result is that XFS got fixed and ext3 is still broken.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
