Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:29:36AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
 > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:53:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > > 
 > > there are a few devices that use lots of ioremap space. vmalloc space is
 > > a showstopper problem for them.
 > > 
 > > this patch adds the vmalloc=<size> boot parameter to override
 > > __VMALLOC_RESERVE. The default is 128mb right now - e.g. vmalloc=256m
 > > doubles the size.
 > 
 > Perhaps this should instead be a configurable.

that would make it useless for distribution kernels for eg.

		Dave
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