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From: Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:18:49 +0000
Subject: [Linux-ia64] kmalloc() and page sizes
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Hi all!

In the current kernels the size limit for kmalloc() is 128KB. The ia64
architecture provides pagesizes ranging from 4K, ... , 64K, 256K, ... ,
4G. If we would increase the maximum kmalloc() size limit to 256K (or
1M) this would match perfectly to the pagesizes.

Since I need a large (256K) segment from kmalloc(), I would appreciate
the increase of the size limit. Maybe also other 64Bit architectures
could benefit from that.

Please tell your opinion to the list.

Christian