Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kmalloc | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 27 Jan 1999 16:24:13 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
Andreas> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: |> Thats vmalloc. If you have an architecture where kmalloc blocks are |> not linear to the I/O devices
Andreas> m68k.
Yes but even then we do not have a granularity of memory < 256KB chunks which will cause this to happen so in practice at least allocations of 256KB are guaranteed to be linear on the m68k and kmalloc is limited to 128KB.
Jes
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