Hi, Just wanted to know, is it a good idea to kmalloc for a small structure. For example if I define a structure in kernel of 10 bytes, and I want to get the memory allocated dynamically for it N number of times, is it good to kmalloc for it every time. As kmalloc() allocates the memory in terms of page size (4k), atleast 4K will be allocated for each kmalloc() call in above case. On other side, wont it be good idea to get one page allocated with kmalloc() and then use it to store an array of our 10 byte structure and if we need more we can get one more page allocated with kmalloc(). In this way we can have list of kmalloc'ed pages and each page represents the array of out 10 byte strucutre. I am asking this as I am adopting the second approch (list of kmalloc'ed pages) in one of my kernel modules, just wanted to know is it worth doing so much of list maintaince of kmalloc'ed pages or we can simply use the kmalloc for allocating memory to each structure. regards, -Gaurav -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
