Hello Can somebody please explain me, why is it impossible to free some RAM on a kmalloc request in the kernel, so that if RAM is available - you'll get it, if not - the call will fail. Sorry, maybe I'm not very precise now - maybe it's true not for all calls to kmalloc, but only for some flag-values, or maybe only for some sk_alloc calls... Anyway, any information on this subject would be greatly apprecated. ...at least there was something like that in 2.2 kernels. Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
