On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:43 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Provide a method to get the upper bound on the pages needed to allocate > > a given number of objects from a given kmem_cache. > > > > Fair enough, but just to make it a bit easier, can you provide a > little reason of why in this patch (or reference the patch number > where you use it, or put it together with the patch where you use > it, etc.).
A generic reserve framework, as seen in patch 11/23, needs to be able convert from a object demand (kmalloc() bytes, kmem_cache_alloc() objects) to a page reserve.
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