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Subject: RE: 2.4.9/2.4.18 max kernel allocation size
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: "Joseph D. Wagner" <wagnerjd@prodigy.net>
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On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 16:35, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> I might be thinking of something totally different than what you're
> talking about, but here it goes:
>=20
> Change line 18 of mmzone.h from:
> 	#define MAX_ORDER 10
> 	to
> 	#define MAX_ORDER 24
>=20
> This allows larger contiguous chunks of memory to be allocated, up to
> 32GB.

He's using vmalloc, so I assume he doesn't need physically contiguous
memory, rather virtually contigous. This code won't change a thing for
his vmalloc() calls AFAICS.

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