On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 15:18, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 13:09, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > > Can 256M be allocated using vmalloc, if so is it swappable?
> >
> > It can be alloacted via vmalloc and AFAIK it is not swappable by
> > default. This doesn't sound like a very good idea though.
>
> There isnt enough address space for vmalloc to grab 256Mb. If you want
> that much then you need to handle the fact its in page arrays not
> virtually linear yourself.
Oopss... indeed. 256M is twice the entire vmalloc address space to be
exact.
Thanks for correcting my mistake ;-)
Gilad.
-- Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> http://benyossef.com"Money talks, bullshit walks and GNU awks." -- Shachar "Sun" Shemesh, debt collector for the GNU/Yakuza
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