On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:13:37PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > So do you think it makes more sense to reimplement a large page allocator in > KVM, as this patch set does, or improve CMA to get us really big chunks of > linear memory? > > Let's ask the Linux mm guys too :). Maybe they have an idea.
I asked the authors of CMA, and apparently it's not limited to MAX_ORDER as I feared. It has the advantage that the memory can be used for other things such as page cache when it's not needed, but not for immovable allocations such as kmalloc. I'm going to try it out. It will need a patch to increase the maximum alignment it allows. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
