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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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