Re: [PATCH 3/3] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case wherearray size is too large

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:27:43 -0400
Benjamin Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:03 AM, KAMEZAWA
> Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ???? why not using vmalloc() always ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Kame
> >
> 
> The idea behind this patch is that in most cases, we want to use
> kmalloc for performance, but sometimes the array will be too big. See
> the previous thread (linked in the root message of this thread) for
> discussion of the issue.
> 
IIUC, this place, .../procs interface is not so important for performance
as to being allowed this ugly conding.

Thanks,
-Kame

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