Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated >MAX_ORDER size

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 17:03:56 EST


David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (2) Changing MAX_ORDER appears to have a number of effects beyond just
> limiting the maximum size that can be allocated in one go.

Several architectures implement CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER and I haven't
heard of larger MAX_ORDERs causing problems.

Certainly, increasing MAX_ORDER is the simplest solution to the problems
which you identify so we need to substantiate these "number of effects"
much more than this please.
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