From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (amitjain@localhost) by mailhost.tifr.res.in (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id NAA02166 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:10:21 +0530 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:10:21 +0530 (IST) From: "Amit S. Jain" Subject: Re: Allocation of kernel memory >128K In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Thank u everyone for the response to my question bout allocatin huge amount of memeory in kernel space.... For a few people who wanted to know why I m allocating such a huge memory and do i really need contiguous memory...here it is ---- Basically what my module is doing is trying to make the communication between kernel to kernel in a Linux Cluster transparent tp TCP/IP. So to transmit the data I copy the data from the user area to the kernel area and then to the n/w buffers.So what I was trying to do is transfer the entire data from user to kernel space at one go(allocating huge memory at kernel)....since this is not possible I can always divide the data into 30K packets and then copy it to the kernel space... P.S I am new to the Linux Kernel ...hence please excuse ne naive comments in the above .. Amit -- 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/