Re: A question about memory fragmentation

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 10:28:52 EST


> Has Linux a generic linked list management API ?

Yes - if you want to use it
        <linux/list.h>

> Is the kernel memory fragmentation a solved problem in Linux? (I wish =

Its not a problem you can solve without causing serious performance hits so
we don't solve it. If you want to allocate large bus linear memory allocations
then tough 8). If you want large virtually linear blocks then you can use
vmalloc

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