Re: [RFT] Support for ~2144 SCSI discs

Alan Cox
2001-08-02T15:34:40Z

> > kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL has a 128K limit which avoids the bizarre
> > behaviour you get when you abuse get_free_pages.
>
> Last I heard, get_free_pages() also has a 128 kiB limit. So what's the
> difference?

get_free_pages doesnt have such a limit. Thats why sg had the problem it did