From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:13:42 -0500 From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: Allocation of kernel memory >128K Message-ID: <20011211131342.D6400@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:27:36AM -0600 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Amit S. Jain" , linux-mm@kvack.org, owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:27:36AM -0600, Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com wrote: > I would not necessarily say that "large amounts of continuous memory is a > bad thing" - rather that it is hard to get, and a costly operation (in > time). For example - a number of existing pages must be moved (or swapped) > to get the area you are requesting. Since this is a big performance hit, > you better have a really good reason for doing so. Don't even bother thinking about performance: it is unreliable. -ben -- 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-mm.org/