Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:56:22 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: USBFS Memory allocation Bug |
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > Is there any means for the driver to take the large request, break it up > > > into multiple smaller requests and submit them one at a time? > > > > In theory almost anything is possible. But it would be a big effort > > and not consistent with the way the rest of the driver works. > > > > Then about the only other suggestion would be a mempool containing a small > number of largest-possible buffers that is enabled if there is no swap > available.
Considering that this is the first report I have heard about this sort of problem, and that adding swap space would probably fix it, I'm not inclined to make any changes.
Alan Stern
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