On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:42 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Peter Zijlstra<pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:26 +0200, Jerome Glisse wrote: > >> We don't need to allocated contiguous pages in cs codepath > >> so use vmalloc instead. > > > > Best would be to not require >PAGE_SIZE allocations at all of course. > > It gets messy when you have copy from user and spinlocks, it would be nice > to just parse the userspace PAGE_SIZE at a time, but it would mean dropping > a lock we probably need to hold.
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