Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:17:30 -0700


Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> Some workloads like to eat up a lot of vmalloc space.

Which workloads are those?

> It is often hard to tell
> whether this is because the area is too small, or just too fragmented. This
> makes it easy to determine.

I do not recall ever having seen any bug/problem reports which this patch
would have helped to solve. Could you explain in more detai why is it useful?
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