Re: the new VMt

Jeff Garzik
2000-09-25T16:36:53Z

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > yep, i agree. I'm not sure what the biggest allocation is, some drivers
> > might use megabytes or contiguous RAM?

> Stupidity has no limits...

Blame the hardware designers... and give me my big allocations. :)

Sounds drivers (not mine though, <g>) do stuff like

order = 20; /* just a made-up high number*/
while ((order-- > 0) && (mem == NULL)) {
mem = __get_free_pages (GFP_KERNEL, order);
}
/* use sound buffer 'mem' */

Older or modern, less-than-cool framegrabbers need tons of contiguous
memory too...

Jeff