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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/