Hello, Hugh, Aristeu. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:59:59PM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote: > hm, not sure that's what Tejun meant. tmpfs uses anonymous memory for the file > contents, so reuse that infrastructure to allocate space for the extended > attributes the same way, instead of using kmem. > > First thing I can think of is to use whole pages for it to prevent further > complexity. Shouldn't make much difference considering the usecases we have > now (systemd and containers), right?
Yeah, that's what I meant. The internal fragmentation is ugly but I think that should do for now at least. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/
