> so, what is the conservative number ? 1MB ?
Even far below that. Most systems will allocate that memory using
get_free_pages and by allocating large pages such as 1mb you'll produce
high memory pressure. Try to get away with PAGE_SIZE * 2 if you can.
Large allocation are only ok if they're rare.
Ralf
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