From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "Abu M. Muttalib" <abum@aftek.com>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
"Paulo Marques" <pmarques@grupopie.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failure, Why?? Bug in kernel??
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:05:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490606020005n841abafjc7e05a5e2ab8a312@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BKEKJNIHLJDCFGDBOHGMGEJJCNAA.abum@aftek.com>
On 02/06/06, Abu M. Muttalib <abum@aftek.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That's precisely I want to say. The PAGES are available but they are not
> allocated to process. Why??
>
There may be 32 pages available in total, but not 32 contiguous ones -
that's a *lot* of contiguous pages to ask for in kernel space - 128KB
(assuming a 4096 byte page size).
--
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-02 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-01 9:26 Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-01 13:25 ` Paulo Marques
2006-06-01 13:51 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-01 14:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-06-02 6:26 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-02 7:05 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2006-06-02 7:21 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-02 7:39 ` Dave Airlie
2006-06-02 7:43 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-02 7:53 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-06-02 8:41 ` Abu M. Muttalib
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