Re: Slab allocators: Define common size limitations

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> What are the changes a large allocation will actually succeed?
> Is there an alignment rule for large allocations?
> 
> E.g. for one of the PS3 drivers I need a physically contiguous 256 KiB-aligned
> block of 256 KiB. Currently I'm using __alloc_bootmem() for that, but maybe
> kmalloc() becomes a suitable alternative now?

kmalloc is limited to 128KiB on most architectures. Normally there is no
need to use it anyway, just use __get_free_pages(). It will generally
succeed at early boot time, but not after the system has been running
for some time.

	Arnd <><
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