Re: Bulk kmalloc

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On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:50:01AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> kvmalloc() is the normal solution here.  Usual reasons for not being
> able to do that would be that you do DMA to the memory or that you need
> to be able to free each of these objects individually.

Note that you absolutely can do DMA to vmalloced buffers.  It just is
very painful due to the manual coherency management..




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