On Sep 14 2007 14:15, Tomas M wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Tomas M:
>>> You said that it's not prefered to allocate large memory blocks which
>>> require several pages. Does the paragraph above say that current aufs
>>> does exactly that? (allocate more). Or it does only for MAX_1023?
>>
>> What I wanted to say is, when I allocate a memory *by kmalloc*, I want
>> to keep it the page size at most.
>> When the active number of branches is 256 or something, current aufs
>> will allocate a memory larger than a page by kmalloc.
>
>OK.
>Can it cause any serious troubles for users, if they use more than eg.
>256 branches? It seems it works OK for me. I didn't notice anything wrong.
So what is the problem of switching to vmalloc?
Jan
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