On Sep 14 2007 21:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt:
>> So what is the problem of switching to vmalloc?
>
>Do you know are there (or are not there) any difference at performance
>between kmalloc and vmalloc?
There is probably a small penalty imposed since the virtual address area
that vmalloc returns you is not necessarily contiguous in physical memory.
I do not know much more (LDD3 might tell), since continuity is mostly
not important for drivers that do not talk to hardware.
Jan
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