From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
braam@clusterfs.com, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au,
David Meybohm <dmeybohm@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Many groups patch.
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:11:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030929211155.A28089@hockin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030930033134.AC71E2C0A4@lists.samba.org>; from rusty@rustcorp.com.au on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:30:07AM +1000
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:30:07AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Why?
>
> (Rusty points at Tim).
>
> He has 10,000 groups. Now me, I'm happy with the minimal fix.
I'm going to merge your thoughts and mine tomorrow and send it out. Linus
suggested the array of pages approah is more sane, so I'm going to try for
it. I'm going to comb through the diffs between your patch and mine.
> And worse, there are the intermediate kmallocs which would need to be
> fixed (thanks to Stephen Rothwell for pointing this out). Fixing this
> would make it even uglier.
Specifically? I think my patch gets all of those. At least all the ones I
found.
> Here's an updated one (with David Meybohm's fix, too -- Thanks!),
> Rusty.
Can you elaborate on what this extra fix is?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-30 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 7:19 [PATCH] Many groups patch Rusty Russell
2003-09-29 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-29 23:30 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-30 4:11 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2003-10-01 7:29 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] <mailman.1064857032.26219.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-09-29 22:29 ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-09-29 22:43 ` Tim Hockin
2003-09-29 22:55 ` Tim Hockin
2003-09-29 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-01 7:10 ` Tim Hockin
2003-10-01 18:46 ` Tim Hockin
2003-10-01 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-01 20:29 ` Tim Hockin
2003-10-01 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-01 21:12 ` Tim Hockin
2003-10-01 21:16 ` Tim Hockin
2003-10-02 2:09 ` Rusty Russell
2003-10-02 4:39 ` Tim Hockin
2003-10-02 9:10 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-02 2:25 ` Rusty Russell
2003-10-02 2:46 ` Pete Zaitcev
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