Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 00:02:36 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Slab allocators: Define common size limitations | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:58:39 +0200 (CEST)
> E.g. for one of the PS3 drivers I need a physically contiguous 256 > KiB-aligned block of 256 KiB. Currently I'm using __alloc_bootmem() > for that, but maybe kmalloc() becomes a suitable alternative now?
I'm allocating up to 1MB for per-process TLB hash tables on sparc64. But I can gracefully handle failures and it's just a performance tweak to use such large sized tables. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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