Re: kmalloc() allocation.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 11:40:16 EST


On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> How much memory would it be reasonable for kmalloc() to be able
> to allocate to a module?

> There are 256 megabytes of SDRAM available. I don't think it's
> reasonable that a 1/2 megabyte allocation would fail, especially
> since it's the first module being installed.

If you write the defragmentation code for the VM, I'll
be happy to bump up the limit a bit ...

Until then, please be modest with the amount of physically
contiguous pages you try to allocate ;)

regards,

Rik

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