Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:08:43 +0100 | From | Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <> | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed |
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--On Sunday, October 07, 2001 11:01 PM +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> vmalloc space fragments. You fragment address space rather than pages > thats all. Same problem
Actually fragmented virtual space is theoretically worse, as you have now lost a possible weapon to defragment stuff (indirection on mapping to physical RAM - i.e. you could no longer move or swap out physical RAM and keep the virtual address mapping the same).
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