Re: allocate huge amounts of kernel memory

Subject: Re: allocate huge amounts of kernel memory
From: Heiko Panther <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:20:12 +0100
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Hi Umesh,

> IOMalloc() is just a wrapper around kalloc(). kalloc() allocates
> memory from a sub map which is limited to 16MB.

Out of curiosity: Why do you use that sub map, and don't allocate straight from kernel_map? (Which is, by the way, my workaround.)

Heiko Panther
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