From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:31:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095251478.19893.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915125356.GA11250@elte.hu>
On Mer, 2004-09-15 at 13:53, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> there are a few devices that use lots of ioremap space. vmalloc space is
> a showstopper problem for them.
>
> this patch adds the vmalloc=<size> boot parameter to override
> __VMALLOC_RESERVE. The default is 128mb right now - e.g. vmalloc=256m
> doubles the size.
Is there a reason for defaulting to such a small allocation even on
4G/4G platforms ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 12:53 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 12:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-15 13:29 ` Joe Korty
2004-09-15 13:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 13:40 ` Joe Korty
2004-09-15 14:14 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-15 13:40 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-15 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-15 21:45 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] <2EHyq-5or-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-15 13:29 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-15 14:05 ` Rodrigo FGV
2004-09-15 14:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-17 22:03 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-17 22:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 14:58 ` Karsten Keil
2004-09-15 15:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
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