RE: 2.2.1-ac5 oops with many fd

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:55:07 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jeffrey Jones wrote:

>it seems strange to me that kmalloc() is failing after only allocating about
>8000 bytes total for
>scatter gather DMA tables. Can anyone tell me if there is another function
>I should be calling
>to allocate this type of memory instead of kmalloc()? I tried scsi_malloc()

__get_free_pages() and friends.

Andrea Arcangeli

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