From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:33:43 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: the new VMt Message-ID: <20000925183343.B27677@athlon.random> References: <20000925181121.A27023@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:22:42PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:22:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > yep, i agree. I'm not sure what the biggest allocation is, some drivers > might use megabytes or contiguous RAM? I'm not sure (we should grep all the drivers to be sure...) but I bet the old 2.2.0 MAX_ORDER #define will work for everything. The fact is that over a certain order there's no hope anyway at runtime and the only big allocations done through the init sequence are for the hashtable. Andrea -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/