Re: hashtables allocated with __get_free_pages()

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:38:44 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I can't understand why you continue to use get_free_pages (now also with
> the page cache) to alloc the hashtables memory.

Dynamic sizing, nothing more.

Linus

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