On Wednesday 30 March 2011 03:39:26 Guan Xuetao wrote: > > How does this work? UNIFB_MEMSIZE seems to be 4 MB, much more than the > > maximum of 128 KB that kmalloc can allocate. > > > > Shouldn't this use get_free_pages() instead of kmalloc? > > > > When using SLUB allocator, if required memory size is larger > than 2*PAGE_SIZE, kmalloc_large is called, > and eventually __get_free_pages will be called. > So, it would be the same as __get_free_pages. Ok, I see. It's probably still better to use __get_free_pages directly, because it's possible to select a different allocator that does not do this itself. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
