[Linux-ia64] kmalloc() and page sizes

Christian Hildner
2002-01-10T10:18:49Z

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