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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Alan Cox writes:
> > I've seen GFP_KERNEL take 10 minutes in lk 2.4.6 . The 
> > mm gets tweaked pretty often so it is difficult to know 
> > exactly how it will react when memory is tight. A time 
> > bound would be useful on GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL has a 128K limit which avoids the bizarre
> behaviour you get when you abuse get_free_pages.

Last I heard, get_free_pages() also has a 128 kiB limit. So what's the
difference?

				Regards,

					Richard....
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