Re: [PATCH 08/29] mm: kmem_cache_objs_to_pages()

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:47 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > So how does this work? You ask the slab allocator how many pages you
> > need for a given number of objects and then those pages are available
> > to it via the page allocator? Can other users also dip into those
> > reserves?

On 2/22/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Everybody (ab)using PF_MEMALLOC or the new __GFP_EMERGENCY.

So you are only interested in rough estimation of how much many pages
you need for a given amount of objects? Why not use ksize() for that
then?

                                   Pekka
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