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Subject: Re: A question about memory fragmentation
To: abel@trymedia.com (Abel Mu?oz Alcaraz)
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> 	I think that is better to allocate a big piece of memory and get the n=
> odes
> from this buffer with my own memory management functions; Is this corre=
> ct?.

See the SLAB interface. It'll do that for you. Kmalloc uses SLAB so will do
similarly sane things

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