Re: [RFT] Support for ~2144 SCSI discs

Richard Gooch
2001-08-02T15:13:40Z

Alan Cox writes:
> > I've seen GFP_KERNEL take 10 minutes in lk 2.4.6 . The
> > mm gets tweaked pretty often so it is difficult to know
> > exactly how it will react when memory is tight. A time
> > bound would be useful on GFP_KERNEL.
>
> 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?

Regards,

Richard....
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