Re: Problem: 51MB partition max size on jffs2

Charles Manning
2002-12-04T18:38:45Z

On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:01, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 December 2002 19:46, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > DGE@sixnetio.com said:
> > > kmalloc() is limited to 128K and the 128MB Flash needs more than
> > > twice that,
> > >
> > > so I tried vmalloc() and it seems to be OK (at least with PPC 2.4.18
> > > patched for the new MTD code). Does anyone know if this change is
> > > safe?
> >
> > You need to change the corresponding kfree() to vfree().
>
> That's right. In actual CVS-code this problem is solved by building virtual
> blocks of 2,4 or 8 physical blocks.

Does this have an impact on performance?