Re: USBFS Memory allocation Bug

[Alan Stern]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > > Is there any means for the driver to take the large request, break it up
> > > into multiple smaller requests and submit them one at a time?
> > 
> > In theory almost anything is possible.  But it would be a big effort
> > and not consistent with the way the rest of the driver works.
> > 
> 
> Then about the only other suggestion would be a mempool containing a small
> number of largest-possible buffers that is enabled if there is no swap
> available.

Considering that this is the first report I have heard about this sort 
of problem, and that adding swap space would probably fix it, I'm not 
inclined to make any changes.

Alan Stern

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