Re: [RFT] Support for ~2144 SCSI discs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:31:21 +0100 (BST)

> > kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL has a 128K limit which avoids the bizarre
> > behaviour you get when you abuse get_free_pages.
>
> Last I heard, get_free_pages() also has a 128 kiB limit. So what's the
> difference?

get_free_pages doesnt have such a limit. Thats why sg had the problem it did
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