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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:59:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Ravi K <kravi26@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Allocation of kernel memory >128K
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>   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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