Re: Memory allocation question

From: george anzinger (george@mvista.com)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 13:47:00 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > size chuncks. Currently I am using kmalloc() to allocate a page at a
> > time. I don't want to have to worry about mapping/unmapping etc. I
>
> Use get_free_page() to get page sized chunks

What about __get_free_page() ? I don't need or want the clear page
(performance issues).

And then to return the page, free_page() ?

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