From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: "Shipman, Jeffrey E" <jeshipm@sandia.gov>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using large amounts of memory in the kernel
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:32:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020716153230.GE653@ns> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D73809840661@es06snlnt>
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* Shipman, Jeffrey E (jeshipm@sandia.gov) wrote:
> I've got a hash table of packet manipulation information
> I need to use inside of a module in my kernel. The problem
> is that this hash table is around 2MB. I'm trying to figure
> out ways to shrink this table, but I'm coming up short on
> ideas. What would be a good way to be able to allocate enough
> memory to store all of this information?
At a guess I'd say vmalloc...
Stephen
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2002-07-16 15:22 Using large amounts of memory in the kernel Shipman, Jeffrey E
2002-07-16 15:32 ` Stephen Frost [this message]
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