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To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: RE2: kmalloc
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At 18:58 15/06/2001, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:41:59AM -0700, Michael Nguyen escreveu:
> > >>Petko Manolov writes:
> > >> kmalloc fails to allocate more than 128KB of
> > >> memory regardless of the flags (GFP_KERNEL/USER/ATOMIC)
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas?
> >
> > >Yes, this is the limit.
> >
> > Im relatively new to Linux. I would like to ask.
> > Is this limit per kmalloc()? Can I do this multiple times?
>
>the limit is for a single invocation of kmalloc, yes, you can do it multiple
>times.

But if you need that much memory it would be better that you use vmalloc AFAIK.

Cheers,

         Anton


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