6 Apr
2017
6 Apr
'17
2:14 p.m.
On 4/6/17 10:12 AM, Donald Sharp wrote:
I'm not sure I would call it 'waste'. The solution, as I understand
There is no waste.
it, allocates the appopriate amount of memory to handle the # of labels handed to it with a *limit* of 4k bytes to the size that is alloc'ed internally to the kernel. This way they are keeping the data structure limit to the maximum size of a page on some platforms at worse case.
exactly.