Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kmalloc | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 29 Jan 1999 11:13:09 +0100 |
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Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> writes:
|> >>>>> "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.
Oops, yes, you're of course right.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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