Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Polling on more than 16000 file descriptors | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:03:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I just noticed your patch but why do you use vmalloc() above just 1 page > and not the kmalloc()'s limit of 128K? Surely below 128K kmalloc() is > faster than vmalloc()? (I know ipc_alloc() does the same but why?).
128K kmallocs often fail. Probably something like a 32K kmalloc limit with vmalloc if the kmalloc fails or >32K ?
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