Re: [PATCH 2/3]: xvmalloc memory allocator

[Nitin Gupta]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>
>> > Slab memory is not backed by vmalloc space.
>> Oh, it uses "low memory". Still not good for compcache :)
>
> Only if you use 32 bit.
>

Yes, this point is for 32-bit only - many users were unhappy with
compcache size limit due to small vmalloc area on x86-32.

Nitin
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