Re: hashtables allocated with __get_free_pages()

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:38:35 -0700


Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:31:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>

it will be all physical contigous and it will fit in the 4mbyte
pagetable with the kernel (or in kseg in Alpha and Mips).

Andrea do you read my emails at all? On some systems the hash tables
will be larger that a few MB and GFP guarentees it will use the
smallest number of TLB entries.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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