Re: PATCH - NGROUPS 2.6.2rc2 + fixups

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:09:28PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401291138390.689@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > > 
> > > What think?
> > 
> > I still don't understand the complexity.
> > 
> > Why the list of pages? Is there really any valid use for this that could 
> > overflow a simple "kmalloc()"? How many groups do people really really 
> > need? 
> 
> I was happy with kmalloc, and no sorting.  Simple patch.  Tim
> complained that he had some wierd-ass users who hit kmalloc limits w/
> fragmentation.  I added about 10 lines of code to fall back to vmalloc
> for that very rare case, and you scotched that.
> 
> ie. Don't blame Tim: you led us here 8(
> 
> Rusty.

So what was the conclusion? It would be nice to get this resolved and merged
in finally.. 

-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
       
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