Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:28:47 +0000 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: prevent warnings when allocating with __GFP_NOWARN |
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Allowing a pipe to store thousands of page refs seems quite useless and > dangerous. > > Having to use vmalloc()/vfree() for every splice()/vmsplice() would be a > performance loss anyway. > > (fs/splice.c splice_grow_spd() will also want to allocate big kmalloc() > chunks)
Why is it not using the page allocator for large allocations?
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