On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Guan Xuetao wrote: > Is it appropriate to using __get_free_pages in framebuffer driver? Yes, it is appropriate, and it is also more efficient than using kmalloc. > And both SLAB and SLUB allocators support 4MB request. Ok, I did not know that, but I see now how the maximum size is computed. The limit was 128 KB for a long time, but has apparently changed. 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
