Re: 2.2.xx __get_free_pages fails for GFP_KERNEL case

[David S. Miller]

   From: [e-mail] (Prasanna Narayana)
   Date: 	Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:01:24 -0700 (PDT)

   We are getting a failure from __get_free_pages even with GFP_KERNEL
   flag.  It turns out that there is enough memory but not in the
   free_areas in the "order" (or more) that we are requesting.

That's right, and the kernel doesn't guarentee that order > 1 requests
will be reliably obtainable in any way.

If you need large contiguous memory, use vmalloc or something similar.

Later,
David S. Miller
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