Another issue is that on 32-bit systems the available virtual
address space in the kernel is only a small fraction of total
system memory. This means the ARC size is highly constrained
which hurts performance and make allocating memory difficult
and OOMs more likely.
ABD is designed to address these issues by using scatter lists
of pages for data buffers. This removes the need for slabs
which resolves the fragmentation issue. It also allows high
memory pages to be allocated which alleviates the virtual
address space pressure on 32-bit systems.
For metadata buffers, which are small, linear ABDs are allocated
from the slab. This is preferable because there are many places
in the code which expect to be able to read from a given offset
in the buffer. Using linear ABDs means none of that code needs
to be modified. The majority of these buffers are allocated with
kmalloc so there's minimal impact of the virtual address space.
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