[SGVLUG] Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 11/13/05, Dustin <laurence at alice.caltech.edu> wrote:
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> Mmm.  How does kmalloc compare to the regular GNU malloc (which IIRC
> provides rather good performance)?

I know that kmalloc can only allocate 128KB max. vmalloc() doesn't
have a limit but is not guaranteed to be physically continuous(so you
cannot dma to it).

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