From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: "Joseph D. Wagner" <wagnerjd@prodigy.net>
Cc: "'Ofer Raz'" <oraz@checkpoint.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: 2.4.9/2.4.18 max kernel allocation size
Date: 09 Oct 2002 11:22:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034158957.30384.8.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008b01c26ee0$5ee52380$9d893841@joe>
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On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 16:35, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> I might be thinking of something totally different than what you're
> talking about, but here it goes:
>
> Change line 18 of mmzone.h from:
> #define MAX_ORDER 10
> to
> #define MAX_ORDER 24
>
> This allows larger contiguous chunks of memory to be allocated, up to
> 32GB.
He's using vmalloc, so I assume he doesn't need physically contiguous
memory, rather virtually contigous. This code won't change a thing for
his vmalloc() calls AFAICS.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 15:19 FW: 2.4.9/2.4.18 max kernel allocation size Ofer Raz
2002-10-08 15:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <028101c26ee6$2c9ec010$8b705a3e@checkpoint.com>
2002-10-08 16:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-09 12:06 ` Ofer Raz
2002-10-08 15:35 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-10-09 10:22 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
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