On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Also note I only use the ntfs_malloc_nofs() wrapper if I have to.  If I
> know how much I am allocating or at least know that the maximum is quite
> small, I use kmalloc() directly.  It is pretty much only for the runlist
> allocations that I use the wrapper as the runlist is typically small but
> for fragmented files it can grow huge.  I have seen runlists consuming
> over 256kiB of ram, without vmalloc that would be a real problem...

So things like

        rl = ntfs_malloc_nofs(rlsize = PAGE_SIZE);

should be changed to kmalloc(), right?

                        Pekka
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