On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > fsblock doesn't need any of those hacks, of course. > > > > Nor does mine for the low orders that we are considering. For order > > > MAX_ORDER this is unavoidable since the page allocator cannot manage such > > large pages. It can be used for lower order if there are issues (that I > > have not seen yet). > > Or we can just avoid all doubt (and doesn't have arbitrary limitations > according to what you think might be reasonable or how well the > system actually behaves).
We can avoid all doubt in this patchset as well by adding support for fallback to a vmalloced compound page. - 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/
