Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:42:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:42:19 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:25103 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:42:07 -0500 Subject: Re: Memory allocation question To: george@mvista.com (george anzinger) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:50:09 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org) In-Reply-To: <3BF95C48.C49B3AE1@mvista.com> from "george anzinger" at Nov 19, 2001 11:23:52 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > size chuncks. Currently I am using kmalloc() to allocate a page at a > time. I don't want to have to worry about mapping/unmapping etc. I Use get_free_page() to get page sized chunks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/