On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:11:32 +0200 "Zdenek Kabelac" <zdenek.kabelac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well - it's great that there will be saved few kB in allocation of > never used pointers in iwl driver - but does this really solve the > problem that kernel gets relatively quickly out of memory for > allocations of this size - I guess iwl isn't the only driver > requesting 32 sequential pages. I hope it is the only one. Doing a 128kb GFP_ATOMIC allocation is hopelessly unreliable. Even a 128k GFP_KERNEL allocation will fail all over the place. Please convert the driver to allocate no more than 4k at a time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
