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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] block: loop: use kmap(page) instead of page_address(page)
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:49:00PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> On 32bit system, this still may cause pressure on page allocation, since
>> requests are handled concurrently now after using workqueue.
>
> kmap slots are from a much smaller resource pool than non-highmem
> allocations, so if a page needs to stay kmaped from allocation time until
> freeing it it should just be allocated as a kernel mapped page.

Yeah, that makes sense to use non-highmem.

Thanks


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