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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: "Shipman, Jeffrey E" <jeshipm@sandia.gov>
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Subject: Re: Using large amounts of memory in the kernel
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* Shipman, Jeffrey E (jeshipm@sandia.gov) wrote:
> I've got a hash table of packet manipulation information
> I need to use inside of a module in my kernel. The problem
> is that this hash table is around 2MB. I'm trying to figure
> out ways to shrink this table, but I'm coming up short on
> ideas. What would be a good way to be able to allocate enough
> memory to store all of this information?

At a guess I'd say vmalloc...

	Stephen

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