Re: %u-order allocation failed

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:01:45 +0100 (BST)

> The difference between memory and vmalloc space is this: you fill up the
> whole memory with cache => memory fragments. You don't fill up the whole
> vmalloc space with anything => vmalloc space doesn't fragment.

vmalloc space fragments. You fragment address space rather than pages thats
all. Same problem

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