Re: the new VMt

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 11:33:43 EST


On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:22:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> yep, i agree. I'm not sure what the biggest allocation is, some drivers
> might use megabytes or contiguous RAM?

I'm not sure (we should grep all the drivers to be sure...) but I bet the old
2.2.0 MAX_ORDER #define will work for everything.

The fact is that over a certain order there's no hope anyway at runtime
and the only big allocations done through the init sequence are for
the hashtable.

Andrea
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