Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:27:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] jffs2 summary allocation |
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:41:34 -0700 David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This problem comes up pretty often. > > Which problem -- kmalloc(BIG)? Or dma(dma-unsafe-mem)? > Or something else?
Code needing a large amount of memory, trying to kmalloc it, then getting into trouble, them using vmalloc, then getting into more trouble.
This is kernel - order-0 allocations will always be the most robust.
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