On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 19:19 +0530, Muneeswaran P - TLS, Chennai wrote: > Hi, > > Please let me know which memory allocation method will be more suitable for > memory size 50 Kilobytes ? > > ( scatter/gather or kmalloc method )? that's too much for kmalloc really > > This memory should be memory mapped to user application and will be used in > PCI-Bus master data transfer. you can't memory map kmalloc memory to userspace anyway -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/