Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:40:47 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:31:44PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:29:36AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:53:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > there are a few devices that use lots of ioremap space. vmalloc space is > > > a showstopper problem for them. > > > > > > this patch adds the vmalloc=<size> boot parameter to override > > > __VMALLOC_RESERVE. The default is 128mb right now - e.g. vmalloc=256m > > > doubles the size. > > > > Perhaps this should instead be a configurable. > > boot time settable is 100x better than only compile time settable imo :)
IMO, everything that is changable at boot time needs an equivalent way of changing the default without specifying a boot time value.
boot time values works well only when the number of values that need changing is small.
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