"J. Hannken-Illjes" <hann...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote: > On Jan 8, 2014, at 5:11 PM, pedro martelletto <pe...@netbsd.org> wrote: > > > Module Name: src > > Committed By: pedro > > Date: Wed Jan 8 16:11:04 UTC 2014 > > > > Modified Files: > > src/sys/fs/tmpfs: tmpfs_subr.c > > > > Log Message: > > Allocate direntp on the stack in tmpfs_dir_getdents(), thus saving > > calls to kmem_zalloc() and kmem_free(); OK rmind@. From OpenBSD. > > Is it really a good idea to allocate 528 bytes on the kernel stack? > File systems nest and already use much stack space.
It is harmless in this case since we get a few or more pages for the stack. > Looks better to use a pool_cache. It is worth to create a separate pool_cache(9) only if the allocations can potentially be very intensive. -- Mindaugas
