Re: kmalloc

[Petko Manolov]

	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