One of the reasons Linux still does not support big kmalloc's is
due to the fact of memory fragmentation. This is still happening
and due to this, the changes of getting a large block of kmemory
are getting lower and lower the longer the kernel runs...
So your advice on using __get_free_pages is a bit of a kludge
because the next thing he'll be asking is why the kmalloc
suddenly start to fail when he still got many times the requested
amount free...
Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink
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