From: Ravi K <kravi26@yahoo.com>
To: "Amit S. Jain" <amitjain@tifr.res.in>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Allocation of kernel memory >128K
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:59:27 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020103225927.81907.qmail@web12305.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112271634010.29530-100000@mailhost.tifr.res.in>
> I WANT TO KNOW WHAT AMOUNT OF MEMORY ALLOCATION
> WILL BE SAFE.i.e. even
> if i alloc 30K at a time,will I always get a
> contiguous memory for that
> purpose.??
> Is there a set limit in Linux for the amount of
> memory we obtain
> will always be contiguous or always available??
No, there are no guarantees about availability of
contiguous memory. But if you do not specify
GFP_ATOMIC flag when calling kmalloc(), it will sleep
till the requested amount of memory is available.
Ravi.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-03 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-11 10:06 Amit S. Jain
2001-12-11 10:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-12 7:40 ` Amit S. Jain
2001-12-20 3:56 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2001-12-27 11:08 ` Amit S. Jain
2002-01-03 22:59 ` Ravi K [this message]
2001-12-11 15:27 Mark_H_Johnson
2001-12-11 18:13 ` Benjamin LaHaise
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