Re: %u-order allocation failed

[Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Sunday, October 07, 2001 11:01 PM +0100 Alan Cox 
<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> vmalloc space fragments. You fragment address space rather than pages
> thats all. Same problem

Actually fragmented virtual space is theoretically
worse, as you have now lost a possible weapon to
defragment stuff (indirection on mapping to physical RAM -
i.e. you could no longer move or swap out physical RAM and
keep the virtual address mapping the same).

--
Alex Bligh