Re: mmotm 2010-10-20-15-01 uploaded

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 00:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> btw, it's a bit sad to use KM_TYPE_NR*NR_CPUS pages of virtual address
> space for kmap_atomic().  I'd expect that distros set NR_CPUS quite
> large (Fedora has 256).  That's 20MB of virtual address space consumed,
> I think.
> 
> And we consume it on non-highmem kernels, too... 

I guess its something to look at, luckily i386 kernels tend to have
small NR_CPUS and x86_64 kernels have gobs of vaddr space so its not
really a problem, but yeah would be nice to fix.



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