From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.jhuml3.jhu.edu by jhuml3.jhu.edu (PMDF V6.0-24 #47345) id <0G2N00M018GHQO@jhuml3.jhu.edu> for linux-mm@kvack.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:48:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aa.eps.jhu.edu (aa.eps.jhu.edu [128.220.24.92]) by jhuml3.jhu.edu (PMDF V6.0-24 #47345) with ESMTP id <0G2N00MA38GHE1@jhuml3.jhu.edu> for linux-mm@kvack.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:48:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:46:58 -0400 (EDT) From: afei@jhu.edu Subject: Re: Page allocation (get_free_pages) In-reply-to: <001b01c0393f$bc79ddc0$c958fc3e@brain> Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "p.hamshere" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: The reason for allocation of contiguous memory block is related to page fault handling of certain machine instructions? I am not very sure either. Fei Liu -- 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/