From: "Rodrigo FGV" <rodrigof@bifgv.com.br>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:05:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b101c49b2d$12bf7f70$0700a8c0@ti10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m34qlzbqy6.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org
How i know the best value to set vmalloc, it's full size of ram????
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andi Kleen" <ak@muc.de>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <kkeil@suse.de>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
> > there are a few devices that use lots of ioremap space. vmalloc space is
> > a showstopper problem for them.
> >
> > this patch adds the vmalloc=<size> boot parameter to override
> > __VMALLOC_RESERVE. The default is 128mb right now - e.g. vmalloc=256m
> > doubles the size.
>
> Ah, Karsten Keil did a similar patch some months ago. There is
> clearly a need.
>
> But I think this should be self tuning instead. For a machine with
> less than 900MB of memory the vmalloc area can be automagically increased,
> growing into otherwise unused address space.
>
> This way many users wouldn't need to specify weird options. So far
> most machines still don't have more than 512MB.
>
> -Andi
>
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-09-15 13:29 ` [patch] tune vmalloc size Andi Kleen
2004-09-15 14:05 ` Rodrigo FGV [this message]
2004-09-15 14:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-17 22:03 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-17 22:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 14:58 ` Karsten Keil
2004-09-15 15:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-15 12:53 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 12:31 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-15 13:29 ` Joe Korty
2004-09-15 13:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 13:40 ` Joe Korty
2004-09-15 14:14 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-15 13:40 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-15 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-15 21:45 ` Ingo Molnar
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