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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:29:36AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:53:56PM +0200, 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.
> 
> Perhaps this should instead be a configurable.

boot time settable is 100x better than only compile time settable imo :)

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