Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Alloc and lock down large amounts of memory | From | Gilad Ben-Yossef <> | Date | 19 Aug 2002 01:45:38 +0300 |
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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 15:18, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 13:09, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > Can 256M be allocated using vmalloc, if so is it swappable? > > > > It can be alloacted via vmalloc and AFAIK it is not swappable by > > default. This doesn't sound like a very good idea though. > > There isnt enough address space for vmalloc to grab 256Mb. If you want > that much then you need to handle the fact its in page arrays not > virtually linear yourself.
Oopss... indeed. 256M is twice the entire vmalloc address space to be exact.
Thanks for correcting my mistake ;-)
Gilad.
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