On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, David Miller wrote: > Really, it would be great if we could treat kmalloc() objects > just like real pages. Everything wants to do I/O on pages > but sometimes (like the networking) you have a kmalloc > chunk which is technically just a part of a page. > > The fact that there is no easy way to make this work is > frustrating :-)
There is easy way: Allocate a page and just use the first N bytes. You can specify the bytes to be used when putting the memory onto the scatter gather list. This wastes memory but it works. You have real refcounting since you got a real page. How frequent are these objects? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
