--- Ankit Jain <radical@corewars.org> wrote: > Hey, > I have to allocate small amounts of memory (lots of strings > actually) > ranging from 1 byte to 200-300 bytes (or can be more also!) in > kernel-space. If i use kmalloc that would allocate memory in > terms of "pages" ..right? So that would waste too much memory. No. kmalloc() can allocate memory in chunks of size smaller ( and bigger) than a page. The range is 32 bytes to 128 kb. You can pass any size in that range, but it will be rounded to the next higher power-of-2. Hope this helps, Ravi. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
