From: Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
To: H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-7110@redhat.com
Subject: Re: MM with fragmented memory
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:48:26 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810220948.LAA06921@lrcsun15.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981022112124.365A-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> from "Rik van Riel" at Oct 22, 98 11:25:32 am
Rik van Riel wrote:
> linux-kernel replaced by linux-mm, since that is where the
> MM folks hang around and linux-kernel is busy enough as it
> is...
Ah, thanks !
>> - allocations from start_mem and end_mem are each limited to a total of
>> 512kB
>
> Allocations are limited to 128kB already.
Are you sure this limit also applies to linear allocations, i.e.
my_huge_buffer = start_mem;
start_mem += 5*1024*1024;
?
- Werner
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1998-10-22 9:25 ` Rik van Riel
1998-10-22 9:48 ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
1998-10-22 10:26 ` Rik van Riel
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