Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2013 10:57:56 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] idr: Document ida tree sections |
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Hello,
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:51:17PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > + * So if the max section size is 64k, that's ~4096 sections, with 8 byte > + * pointers that's a little over 32k for the pointers to sections. > + * > + * That means max size sections are order 4 page allocations.
Order 4 allocations for common data structure doesn't really sound like a good idea to me. It's gonna work fine on relatively large machines but suck on mobile / small embedded devices, many of which are still struggling with 32bit address space and compaction may not be enabled. It just doens't make sense to me to impose 64k allocations from low level library function like ida.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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