On Friday 15 October 2004 03:17, Jan Hudec wrote: > For larger sizes, vmalloc becomes prefered, since it can remap the > pages, so it will work even if the memory is too fragmented for > high-order allocation to succeed from gfp. vmalloc() is to be used with care. http://lwn.net/Articles/57800/ http://lwn.net/Articles/57804/ " There are basically no valid new uses of it. There's a few valid legacy users (I think the file descriptor array), and there are some drivers that use it (which is crap, but drivers are drivers), and it's _really_ valid only for modules. Nothing else." Follow links on that page for more info regarding this. -- Regards, Kiran Kumar Immidi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
