Re: [PATCH] md: simplify free_params for kmalloc vs vmalloc fallback

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Apr 28 2016 - 11:28:20 EST


On Thu 28-04-16 11:04:05, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> BTW. we could also use kvmalloc to complement kvfree, proposed here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-July/msg00046.html

If there are sufficient users (I haven't checked other than quick git
grep on KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE and there do not seem that many) who are
sharing the same fallback strategy then why not. But I suspect that some
would rather fallback earlier and even do not attempt larger than e.g.
order-1 requests.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs