On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:15:51PM +0200, Jaromír Dole?ek wrote:
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> So is it really that the physical memory would be so fragmented after boot
> to multiuser, that you cannot get even 11 continual memory pages?
We had issues with allocating 64k contigous RAM in the past.
> It confuses me that this behaviour doesn't change when I increase the
> available physical memory, but I used relatively small increase
> (128MB/256MB/512MB IIRC). Maybe reducing page cache size would help?
Some platforms have a limited area for busdma allocations. Fragmentation
is then independent from memory size. I don't know if that is the case
here.
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