Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size

[Rodrigo FGV]

How i know the best value to set vmalloc, it's full size of ram????
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxx>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <kkeil@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size


> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > there are a few devices that use lots of ioremap space. vmalloc space is
> > a showstopper problem for them.
> >
> > this patch adds the vmalloc=<size> boot parameter to override
> > __VMALLOC_RESERVE. The default is 128mb right now - e.g. vmalloc=256m
> > doubles the size.
>
> Ah, Karsten Keil did a similar patch some months ago. There is
> clearly a need.
>
> But I think this should be self tuning instead. For a machine with
> less than 900MB of memory the vmalloc area can be automagically increased,
> growing into otherwise unused address space.
>
> This way many users wouldn't need to specify weird options.  So far
> most machines still don't have more than 512MB.
>
> -Andi
>
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