From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:58:39 +0200 (CEST)
> E.g. for one of the PS3 drivers I need a physically contiguous 256
> KiB-aligned block of 256 KiB. Currently I'm using __alloc_bootmem()
> for that, but maybe kmalloc() becomes a suitable alternative now?
I'm allocating up to 1MB for per-process TLB hash tables
on sparc64. But I can gracefully handle failures and it's
just a performance tweak to use such large sized tables.
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