Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I think the fixed size pool is perfectly reasonable.
>
> Yes. It's a tradeoff. I think it's worth it at the moment (although
> I'll add a limited printk to __alloc_percpu if it fails).
>
It's OK as long as nobody uses the feature! Once it starts to be commonly
used (say, in driver ->open() methods) then we'll get into the same problems
as with vmalloc exhaustion, vmalloc fragmentation, large physically-contig
allocations, etc.
Ho-hum. Can the magical constant become a __setup thing?
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