From: Petko Manolov <pmanolov@Lnxw.COM>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:21:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B2A4434.8E2E16FC@lnxw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B2A3F90.799ACAC4@lnxw.com> <20010615140525.A960@conectiva.com.br>
Hey thanks,
The memory i need is not for DMA usage so i don't care
if it is contiguous or not.
later,
Petko
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>
> Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:02:08AM -0700, Petko Manolov escreveu:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > AFAIK there was similar discusion almos a year
> > ago but i can't remember the details.
> >
> > kmalloc fails to allocate more than 128KB of
> > memory regardless of the flags (GFP_KERNEL/USER/ATOMIC)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > I am not quite sure if this is the expected behavior.
>
> yes, expected behaviour, at most you can allocate 32 contiguous pages with
> kmalloc, if you need more and it is not for DMA, use vmalloc, that will not
> try to use contiguous pages
>
> - Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-15 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-15 17:02 kmalloc Petko Manolov
2001-06-15 17:04 ` kmalloc David S. Miller
2001-06-15 17:05 ` kmalloc Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-06-15 17:21 ` Petko Manolov [this message]
2002-03-10 17:22 kmalloc tushar korde
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