From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
yi.zhu@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:30:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48519577.8000402@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240806120843s268b2ff4mb45a11adf11afc7f@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/12/2008 05:43 PM, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> This cuts the allocation to 10%, or (under) a page in all cases.
>
> Probably. it would be safe to use vmalloc for allocating txb anyway.
> I'll give it a try.
Why it wouldn't be "safe". I suggested it to you already, since allocating 64k
by kmalloc for descriptors accessed only in kernel is crud. Moreover you're
mixing the buffer with its descriptors here? Or what you're considering to vmalloc?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-12 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 10:07 Problem: Out of memory after 2days with 2GB RAM Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 13:38 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-12 13:54 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 14:12 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 14:19 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 16:38 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 15:43 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 16:35 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:05 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:39 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:46 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 18:03 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 18:15 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 20:11 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-12 22:17 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-13 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-12 18:41 ` John W. Linville
2008-06-12 17:03 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:35 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:39 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-12 17:50 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-12 17:10 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-12 21:30 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-06-12 22:26 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-06-13 14:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-13 14:15 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2008-06-30 11:30 ` Zdenek Kabelac
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