On Friday 14 December 2007 07:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Provide a method to get the upper bound on the pages needed to > allocate a given number of objects from a given kmem_cache. > > This lays the foundation for a generic reserve framework as presented > in a later patch in this series. This framework needs to convert > object demand (kmalloc() bytes, kmem_cache_alloc() objects) to pages.
And hence the big idea that all reserve accounting can be done in units of pages, allowing the use of a single global reserve that already exists. The other big idea here is that reserve accounting can be independent of the actual resource allocations. This is a powerful idea which we may not have explained clearly yet. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
